O-Antigen Diversification Masks Identification of Highly Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4-Like Strains

O-Antigen Diversification Masks Identification of Highly Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4-Like Strains

ABSTRACT Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can give rise to a range of clinical outcomes from diarrhea to the life-threatening systemic condition hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). Although STEC O157:H7 is the serotype most frequently associated with HUS, a major outbreak of HUS occurred i...

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Main Authors: Christina Lang, Angelika Fruth, Ian W. Campbell, Claire Jenkins, Peyton Smith, Nancy Strockbine, François-Xavier Weill, Ulrich Nübel, Yonatan H. Grad, Matthew K. Waldor, Antje Flieger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
O-antigen diversification
O104:H4
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
phylogeny
risk profiling
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00987-23

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