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Two novel EHEC/EAEC hybrid strains isolated from human infections.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Prager Rita, Lang Christina, Aurass Philipp, Fruth Angelika, Tietze Erhard, Flieger Antje
Abstract excerpt
The so far highest number of life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome was associated with a food-borne outbreak in 2011 in Germany which was caused by an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of the rare serotype O104:H4. Most importantly, the outbreak strain harbored genes characteristic of both EHEC and enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC). Such strains have been described seldom but due to the combination of...
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