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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 stools were studied by cytotoxicity seroneutralisation assays and by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the...
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