“…The most common routes of E. coli contamination are drinking water, vegetables, undercooked meat, unpasteurized milk, and by bathing in polluted rivers and seas [ 7 , 8 ]. Its importance as a public health problem is evident in E. coli outbreaks such as those that occurred in July 1996 in Osaka schools, Japan [ 9 , 10 , 11 ], in 1982 in the Oregon and Michigan cities, United States [ 12 ], and in May 2000 in the Ontario Walkerton farming community, Canada [ 13 ].…”