The rise in foodborne-related outbreaks of non O157 shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STECs) emphasizes the importance of developing improved methods to rapidly detect and characterize STECs. The major s
The food-borne pathogens Campylobacter jejuni (Cj) and C. coli (Cc) produce capsular polysaccharides (CPS) that are the major antigenic determinants of the classical Penner serotyping system that dist