Article
Serological and biochemical properties of Shiga-like toxin (verocytotoxin)-producing strains of Escherichia coli, other than O-group 157, from patients in Germany.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 1992
Bockemühl J, Aleksić S, Karch H
Abstract excerpt
During 1987-1990, 62 infections with Shiga-like toxin (Verocytotoxin)-producing E. coli, other than O group 157, were identified. The isolates belonged to 26 serovars within 20 O groups; of them, 10 serovars belonged to 6 O groups of traditional enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). The serovars O2:H5...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Toxins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Cytotoxins
- Diarrhea
- Enteritis
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Germany
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Humans
- Infant
- Phenotype
- Serotyping