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Isolation and characterisation of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli strains from northern Palestine.

J Med Microbiol

April 2002

Department of Biological Sciences, An-Najah N. University and *Department of Biological Sciences, Bir Zeit University, Palestine.

Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in northern Palestine in 1999 were screened for serotype O157 and characterised for virulence genes by multiplex PCR assay. Of the 176 STEC isolates, 124 (70.5%) were of serotype O157.

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