Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2012)

Clinical Significance of Escherichia albertii

  • Tadasuke Ooka,
  • Kazuko Seto,
  • Kimiko Kawano,
  • Hideki Kobayashi,
  • Yoshiki Etoh,
  • Sachiko Ichihara,
  • Akiko Kaneko,
  • Junko Isobe,
  • Keiji Yamaguchi,
  • Kazumi Horikawa,
  • Tânia A.T. Gomes,
  • Annick Linden,
  • Marjorie Bardiau,
  • Jacques G. Mainil,
  • Lothar Beutin,
  • Yoshitoshi Ogura,
  • Tetsuya Hayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1803.111401
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 3
pp. 488 – 492

Abstract

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Discriminating Escherichia albertii from other Enterobacteriaceae is difficult. Systematic analyses showed that E. albertii represents a substantial portion of strains currently identified as eae-positive Escherichia coli and includes Shiga toxin 2f–producing strains. Because E. albertii possesses the eae gene, many strains might have been misidentified as enterohemorrhagic or enteropathogenic E. coli.

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