Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli Infection Including Topics of EHEC O111 and EHEC O104

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC).

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli has since the last 2 decades been known to cause severe and bloody diarrhoea as well as haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and haemorrhagic uraemic syndrome (HUS) especially among children. The importance of screening for EHEC among children and older patients with severe symptoms is apparent. Production of the verocytotoxins VT1 and VT2 are the main features of EHEC,...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) and enteropathogenic E. coli

Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) pathogenesis

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) serotype O157:H7 is a human pathogen responsible for outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) worldwide. Conventional antimicrobials trigger an SOS response in EHEC that promotes the release of the potent Shiga toxin that is responsible for much of the morbidity and mortality associated with EHEC infection. Cattle are a natural r...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains of serogroup O118 display three distinctive clonal groups of EHEC pathogens.

A recent case report of a child infected with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of serotype O118:H16 in Bavaria, in association with the isolation of a bovine O118 strain on the same farm (A. Weber, H. Klie, H. Richter, P. Gallien, M. Timm, and K. W. Perlberg, Berl. Muench. Tieraerztl. Wochenschr. 110:211-213, 1997), prompted us to investigate the relationship between bovine and human s...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) Findings from Humans in Finland

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