Article
[Fenotypic and genotypic characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O111 strain isolated from patient with hemolytic-uremic syndrome].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 2010
Januszkiewicz Aleksandra, Podsiadły Edyta, Szych Jolanta, Semkowicz-Chmielewska Anna, Demkow Urszula, Pierzchlewicz Anna, Rastawicki Waldemar
Abstract excerpt
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157 and non-O157 are important emergance pathogens that can cause diarrhea and hemorrhagic colitis with life-threatening complications, such as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). A few cases of EHEC infections are documented per year in Poland. Among them only one patient with EHEC O157 infection developed HUS. We characterized the first VTEC non-O157 strain isolated from child with...
Topics
- Escherichia coli
- Genotype
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Shiga Toxin
- Species Specificity
- Virulence
