Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2008)

Analysis of Collection of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome–associated Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

  • Alexander Mellmann,
  • Martina Bielaszewska,
  • Robin Köck,
  • Alexander W. Friedrich,
  • Angelika Fruth,
  • Barbara Middendorf,
  • Dag Harmsen,
  • M. Alexander Schmidt,
  • Helge Karch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1408.071082
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 8
pp. 1287 – 1290

Abstract

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Multilocus sequence typing of 169 non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) isolated from patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) demonstrated 29 different sequence types (STs); 78.1% of these strains clustered in 5 STs. From all STs and serotypes identified, we established a reference panel of EHEC associated with HUS (HUSEC collection).

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