02780naa a2200277 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400360006010000150009624501630011126000090027450012810028352005710156465300210213565300500215665300120220665300220221865300340224065300220227470000180229670000160231470000160233070000150234670000150236177301260237610639672023-03-07       2023    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.3389/fmicb.2023.11301702DOI1 aMUSSIO, P.  aPhenotypic and genotypic characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains recovered from bovine carcasses in Uruguay.h[electronic resource]  c2023  aArticle history: Received 22 December 2022; Accepted 13 February 2023; Published 06 March 2023. -- Correspondence authors: Paula Mussio, email: paumussio@gmail.com ; Gustavo Varela, email: gvarela@higiene.edu.uy -- Edited by: Vinicius Castro, University of Lethbridge, Canada. -- Specialty Section: This article was submitted to Food Microbiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. -- This article is part of the Research Topic From Farm Gate to Food Plate: Current Challenges in Foodborne Microorganism Detection, Epidemiology, and Genetic Diversity (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/49842/from-farm-gate-to-food-plate-current-challenges-in-foodborne-microorganism-detection-epidemiology-and-genetic-diversity#articles ). -- LICCENSE: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). -- Supplementary material: The Supplementary material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1130170/full#supplementary-material . -- FUNDING: This work was supported by Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Fondo Sectorial Innovagro - Inocuidad, Grant: FSA_I_2017_1_140224.  aIntroduction: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a zoonotic pathogen that cause food-borne diseases in humans. Cattle and derived foodstuffs play a known role as reservoir and vehicles, respectively. In Uruguay, information about the characteristics of circulating STEC in meat productive chain is scarce. The aim was to characterize STEC strains recovered from 800 bovine carcasses of different slaughterhouses. Methods: To characterize STEC strains we use classical microbiological procedures, Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and FAO/WHO risk criteria.  aBovine carcasses  aShiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)  aURUGUAY  aVirulence factors  aWhole Genome Sequencing (WGS)  aZoonotic pathogen1 aMARTÍNEZ, I.1 aLUZARDO, S.1 aNAVARRO, A.1 aLEOTTA, G.1 aVARELA, G.  tFrontiers in Microbiology, 2023, volume 14, article 1130170. OPEN ACCESS. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1130170