Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2004)

Enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O169:H41, United States

  • Mark E. Beatty,
  • Cheryl A. Bopp,
  • Joy G. Wells,
  • Kathy D. Greene,
  • Nancy D. Puhr,
  • Eric D. Mintz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1003.030268
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 518 – 521

Abstract

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From 1996 to 2003, 16 outbreaks of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections in the United States and on cruise ships were confirmed. E. coli serotype O169:H41 was identified in 10 outbreaks and was the only serotype in 6. This serotype was identified in 1 of 21 confirmed ETEC outbreaks before 1996.

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