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Sprouts are it - "strain from sprouts identical to strain from infected patient"

"EHEC outbreak: BfR confirms contamination of sprouts with O104:H4  11.06.2011 Who confirmed?   The  National Reference Laboratory for   Escherichia coli   at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). Their mission:  "Identify risks - Protect health" - this is the guiding principle for the work of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment ( BfR ) in the field of consumer health protection. What is the news (and it's big)?  "Strain from the sprouts is identical to strain from the infected   patients" Further reading : "Scientists of the National Reference Laboratory for  Escherichia coli  at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have confirmed the results of the  Land  authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia: Raw sprouts contaminated with EHEC, which originated from the household of EHEC patients in North Rhine-Westphalia, were contaminated with the EHEC strain O104:H4." For the microbiologists: " I...