Characteristics of the enteroaggregative Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain causing the outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Germany, May to June 2011

Scheutz, Flemming; Møller Nielsen, Eva; Frimodt-Møller, Jakob; Boisen, Nadia; Morabito, Stefano; Tozzoli, Rosangela; P. Nataro, James; Caprioli, Alfredo

doi:10.2807/ese.16.24.19889-en

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Characteristics of the enteroaggregative Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain causing the outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Germany, May to June 2011

Published in Eurosurveillance • Jun 16, 2011

Authors:

Flemming Scheutz

Eva Møller Nielsen

Jakob Frimodt-Møller

Abstract

The Escherichia coli strain causing a large outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea in Germany in May and June 2011 possesses an unusual combination of pathogenic features typical of enteroaggregative E. coli together with the capacity to produce Shiga toxin. Through rapid natio...

Subject

Outbreak

Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome

Microbiology

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