Hamburger disease, a bad memory?
The "hamburger disease" or HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome) is gastroenteritis, which attacks the kidneys and reached each year over 100 people in France and 2 to 4 100 000 people around the world.
International search results just shown for the first time how the bacterium E. coli responsible for the disease can survive in the gut of the cow by ensuring the exclusive food source specific. Published in the October issue of Environmental Microbiology and highlighted in Nature Reviews Microbiology, results of this study could lead to the development of non-medical interventions to eradicate this bacterium.
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