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Infectious inaccuracy

Published on
April 18, 1997
Last updated
May 27, 2015

First the Today programme on Radio Four, now you. E. coli O157 may indeed be virulent but it is a bacterium, not a virus, and the O is a letter, not a zero.

DOUGLAS KELL Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales at Aberystwyth

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