Article
Pheno-genotyping of verotoxin 2 (VT2)-producing Escherichia coli causing haemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome by direct analysis of patients' stools.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Nov 1995
Caprioli A, Luzzi I, Gianviti A, Russmann H, Karch H
Abstract excerpt
The subtype of verotoxin 2 (VT2) found in 22 VT2-positive stool samples from severely diseased Italian and German children with haemorrhagic colitis or haemolytic uraemic syndrome, or both, and that produced by the corresponding VT-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains isolated from the stool...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Toxins
- Child
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Feces
- Genotype
- Germany
- HeLa Cells
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Humans
- Italy
- Neutralization Tests
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction