Relationship of genetic type of Shiga toxin to manifestation of bloody diarrhea due to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroup O157 isolates in Osaka City, Japan.
One hundred sixty-nine strains of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroup O157 were examined for the correlation between the genotype of their Shiga toxin genes (stx) and manifestation of bloody diarrhea (BD). It was shown that the strains carrying only stx2vha were probably less virulent and caused BD less frequently.
Nishikawa
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Department of Health and Epidemiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, 8-34, 543-0026, Osaka, Japan. nisikawa@life.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Zhou
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Hase
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Ogasawara
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J
Cheasty
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Haruki
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics*; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000473:pathology*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D019453:Escherichia coli O157 / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D005243:Feces; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011379:Prognosis; D022603:Shiga Toxins
D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D022603:Shiga Toxins