Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

Most Escherichia coli strains live harmlessly in the intestines and rarely cause disease in
healthy individuals. Nonetheless, a number of pathogenic strains can cause diarrhea or …

The involvement of the pathogenic Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC; also
called verocytotoxic-producing E. coli or VTEC) in sporadic cases and disease outbreaks is …

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are the pathogenic subgroup of Shiga toxin
(Stx)-producing E. coli. EHEC can cause non-bloody and bloody diarrhoea, and the …

1. abstract Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli O157 are important enteropathogens
causing outbreaks of haemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Strains of E …

ABSTRACT A total of 514 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates from
diarrheic and healthy cattle in Spain were characterized in this study. PCR showed that 101 …

An outbreak that comprised 3,842 cases of human infections with enteroaggregative
hemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EAHEC) O104: H4 occurred in Germany in May 2011. The …

We recently described a novel megaplasmid-encoded adhesin produced by certain Shiga
toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains that lack the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE) …

Escherichia coli O157: H7 is a Shiga toxin (stx)-producing E. coli (STEC) strain that has
been classified as an adulterant in US beef. However, numerous other non-O157 STEC …

The capacity of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) to adhere to the intestinal mucosa
undoubtedly contributes to pathogenesis of human disease. The majority of STEC strains …