Researchers Explore New Risk-Ranking Methods for STEC Strains
Researchers from Livsmedelsverket, known as the Swedish Food Agency in English, have developed a new approach for ranking and classifying strains of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli(STEC) based on potential public health burden.
The study was conducted with the intent to close knowledge gaps that exist regarding the properties determining the extent to which different subtypes of STEC can cause severe disease. To do this, researchers leveraged data on the proportion of human cases of STEC infection that involve severe illness.