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Recycling of Shiga toxin 2 genes in sorbitol-fermenting enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:NM.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Mellmann Alexander, Lu Shan, Karch Helge, Xu Jian-guo, Harmsen Dag, Schmidt M Alexander, Bielaszewska Martina
Abstract excerpt
Using colony blot hybridization with stx(2) and eae probes and agglutination in anti-O157 lipopolysaccharide serum, we isolated stx(2)-positive and eae-positive sorbitol-fermenting (SF) enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:NM (nonmotile) strains from initial stool specimens and stx-negative and eae-positive SF E. coli O157:NM strains from follow-up specimens (collected 3 to 8 days later) from three...
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