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| - | <p class="noIndent">The goal of our project is to design a biosensor to rapidly identify cattle known as <span class ="Green"><b>super shedders.</b></span> Super shedders are cows that excrete extremely high counts of <i>E.coli</i>O157:H7, | + | <p class="noIndent">The goal of our project is to design a biosensor to rapidly identify cattle known as <span class ="Green"><b>super shedders.</b></span> Super shedders are cows that excrete extremely high counts of <i>E.coli</i>O157:H7, a bacterial strain of a group of <i>E.coli</i> referred to as Enterohaemorrhagic <i>E.coli</i> (EHEC). EHEC organisms produce a toxin called Shigatoxin or verotoxin, which causes hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in humans and can be deadly.</p> |
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Revision as of 16:50, 27 September 2013
Our Sensor
Our Sensor
The goal of our project is to design a biosensor to rapidly identify cattle known as super shedders. Super shedders are cows that excrete extremely high counts of E.coliO157:H7, a bacterial strain of a group of E.coli referred to as Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC). EHEC organisms produce a toxin called Shigatoxin or verotoxin, which causes hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in humans and can be deadly.
We are building a very specific nucleotide biosensor that detects not only O157:H7 E.coli but also the DNA of EHEC organisms. Our sensor detects a gene called stx2 that is common among all EHEC organisms.
