ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SORBITOL-FERMENTING SHIGA TOXIN (VEROCYTOTOXIN)-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA-COLI O157-H-STRAINS IN THE CZECH-REPUBLIC

Authors
BIELASZEWSKA M SCHMIDT H KARMALI MA KHAKHRIA R JANDA J BLAHOVA K KARCH H
Citation
M. Bielaszewska et al., ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SORBITOL-FERMENTING SHIGA TOXIN (VEROCYTOTOXIN)-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA-COLI O157-H-STRAINS IN THE CZECH-REPUBLIC, Journal of clinical microbiology, 36(7), 1998, pp. 2135-2137
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
36
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2135 - 2137
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1998)36:7<2135:IACOSS>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Two sorbitol-fermenting (SF) Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (S TEC) 0157:H-strains were isolated from patients with hemolytic-uremic syndrome in the Czech Republic in 1995. Their phenotypic and genotypic characteristics and genomic DNA fingerprints were identical or closel y related to those of SF STEC 0157:H-strains isolated in Germany in 19 88 to 1997. This indicates that the Czech isolates belong to the SF ST EC 0157 clone which is widespread in Germany. It is the first finding of the clone outside Germany.