Article
Isolation and characterization of sorbitol-fermenting Shiga toxin (Verocytotoxin)-producing Escherichia coli O157:H- strains in the Czech Republic.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 1998
Bielaszewska M, Schmidt H, Karmali M A, Khakhria R, Janda J, Bláhová K, Karch H
Abstract excerpt
Two sorbitol-fermenting (SF) Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H- strains were isolated from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome in the Czech Republic in 1995. Their phenotypic and genotypic characteristics and genomic DNA fingerprints were identical or closely related to tho...
Topics
- Bacterial Toxins
- Czech Republic
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli O157
- Feces
- Genotype
- Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
- Humans
- Infant
- Phenotype
