An Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Possibly Caused by Escherichia coli 0167: H9

An outbreak of water-borne gastroenteritis caused by diarrheagenic Escherichia coli possessing eae gene.

From July 19 to July 23, 2005, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among the students and teaching staff at a high school in Fukuoka City, Japan. A total of 409 persons, including 393 students and 16 staff members, went camping at a town in Oita Prefecture, from July 18 to 20. Among them, 174 students and 2 staff members showed symptoms such as watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting and ...

Outbreak of infantile gastro-enteritis caused by Escherichia coli O114.

Jacobs, S. I., Holzel, A., Wolman, B., Keen, J. H., Miller, V., Taylor, J., and Gross, R. J. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 656. An outbreak of infantile gastro-enteritis caused by Escherichia coli 0114. An outbreak of infantile gastro-enteritis occurred at Booth Hall Children's Hospital as part of a general incident in north-western England, caused by Esch. coli 01 14K9OH2. The ...

Case Report of Meningoencephalitis in Calves Caused by Escherichia coli

An outbreak of food poisoning caused by an enteropathogeic Escherichia coli O115:H19 in Miyagi Prefecture.

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Miyagi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment, Saiwai-cho 4-7-2, Miyagino-ku, Sendai 983-0836, Japan. Fax: +81-22-257-7194, E-mail: [email protected] Outbreaks of mass food poisoning due to enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) have been rare in Japan. In this report, we describe an outbreak of food poisoning considered to have ...

An outbreak of gastroenteritis in Japan due to Escherichia coli O166.

To the Editor: Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) heat-stable enterotoxin 1 (EAST1) was originally found as an enterotoxin of EaggEC (1). Recently, Yamamoto et al. (2) reported that the EAST1 gene, or its variants, were present not only in EAggEC but in other diarrheagenic E. coli, including some entero-pathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). Hedberg et al. (3) fo...