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Category: Clinical Microbiology
Risk Factors for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli-Associated Human Diseases, Page 1 of 2
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains emerged in the late 1970s or early 1980s as highly significant zoonotic threats to public health. In 1982, two outbreaks of severe bloody diarrhea, related to a previously rare serotype of E. coli, O157:H7, were reported in the United States ( 1 ).
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Number of HUS cases, incidence rates, and percentages of lethality in Argentina, 2002–2011.
(a) Top ten XbaI-PFGE patterns associated with human STEC O157 strains in Argentina. (b) Dendrogram of the top ten XbaI-PFGE patterns. (c) Dendrogram of AREHXHX01.0011 pattern and other related patterns.
Risk factors for STEC infections identified by case-control studies and population-based studies, 2000-2012
Features of major food-borne outbreaks associated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli