Article
Long-term shedding and clonal turnover of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 in diarrheal diseases.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 1995
Karch H, Rüssmann H, Schmidt H, Schwarzkopf A, Heesemann J
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the length of time that Shiga-like toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 is excreted after the onset of diarrhea, 456 serial stool specimens were obtained from 53 children. E. coli O157 cells were identified by the use of DNA probes followed by agglutination with a specific antiser...
Topics
- Bacterial Toxins
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Bacterial
- Diarrhea
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Feces
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Shiga Toxin 1
- Time Factors