Article
Microevolution of epidemiological highly relevant non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli of serogroups O26 and O111.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Dec 2018
Eichhorn Inga, Semmler Torsten, Mellmann Alexander, Pickard Derek, Anjum Muna F, Fruth Angelika, Karch Helge, Wieler Lothar H
Abstract excerpt
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are a cause of bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis (HC) and the potentially fatal hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). While O157:H7 is the dominant EHEC serotype, non-O157 EHEC have emerged as serious causes of disease. In Germany, the most important non-O157 O-serogroups causing one third of EHEC infections, including diarrhea as well as HUS, are O26, O103, O111 and O145....
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli O157
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Bacterial
- Germany
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide