Occurrence of Diarrheagenic Virulence Genes and Genetic Diversity in Escherichia coli Isolates from Fecal Material of Various Avian Hosts in British Columbia …

A Chandran, A Mazumder - Applied and environmental …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Contamination of surface water by fecal microorganisms originating from human and
nonhuman sources is a public health concern. In the present study, Escherichia coli isolates …

Genetic Typing of Shiga Toxin 2 Variants of Escherichia coli by PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

L De Baets, I Van der Taelen, M De Filette… - Applied and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Shiga toxins Stx1 and Stx2 play a prominent role in the pathogenesis of Shiga
toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections. Several variants of the stx 2 gene …

Comparison of Shiga-like toxin II expression between two genetically diverse lineages of Escherichia coli O157: H7.

SE Dowd, JB Williams - Journal of food protection, 2008 - europepmc.org
The existence of two separate lineages of Escherichia coli O157: H7 has previously been
reported, and research indicates that one of these lineages (lineage I) might be more …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Circulating in Asymptomatic Food Handlers

X Sui, X Yang, M Luo, H Wang, Q Liu, H Sun, Y Jin… - Toxins, 2023 - mdpi.com
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a foodborne zoonotic pathogen that
causes diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis (HC), and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) …

Successful detection of pathogenic Shiga‐toxin‐producing Escherichia coli in shellfish, environmental waters and sediment using the ISO/TS‐13136 method

C Balière, A Rincé, D Thevenot… - Letters in applied …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The presence of highly pathogenic Shiga‐toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in
shellfish, upstream waters and sediment from coastal shellfish sites was evaluated using the …

A rapid method for the discrimination of genes encoding classical Shiga toxin (Stx) 1 and its variants, Stx1c and Stx1d, in Escherichia coli

T Kuczius, M Bielaszewska… - Molecular nutrition & …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Subtyping of Shiga toxin (Stx)‐encoding genes by conventional polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) is time‐consuming. We developed a single step real‐time fluorescence PCR …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli detection methods using clinical stool samples

L Chui, MR Couturier, T Chiu, G Wang, AB Olson… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
Molecular diagnostic tools capable of identifying Shiga toxin-specific genetic determinants in
stool specimens permit an unbiased approach to detect Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia …

Real-time PCR assays to detect 10 Shiga toxin subtype (Stx1a, Stx1c, Stx1d, Stx2a, Stx2b, Stx2c, Stx2d, Stx2e, Stx2f, and Stx2g) genes

T Harada, Y Wakabayashi, K Seto, K Lee… - … and Infectious Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
To develop subtyping methods for Shiga toxin (Stx) 1a, Stx1c, Stx1d, Stx2a, Stx2b, Stx2c,
Stx2d, Stx2e, Stx2f, and Stx2g genes for epidemiological analyses of Shiga toxin-producing …

Comparable stx2a expression and phage production levels between Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli strains from human and bovine origin

J Burgán, A Krüger… - Zoonoses and public …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can cause diarrhoea and severe diseases in
humans, such as haemolytic uraemic syndrome. STEC virulence is considered to correlate …

Development of a PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assay for the Epidemiological Analysis of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli

K Shima, J Terajima, T Sato, K Nishimura… - Journal of clinical …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Six characteristic regions (I to VI) were identified in Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) phages (T. Sato, T.
Shimizu, M. Watarai, M. Kobayashi, S. Kano, T. Hamabata, Y. Takeda, and S. Yamasaki …