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... > Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia > Escherichia coli > Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli > Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli > Escherichia coli O157
... > Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia > Escherichia coli > Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli > Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli > Escherichia coli O157

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Escherichia coli O157  

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  • E coli O157

Note

  • infection: coordinate IM with ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS (IM); consider also HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; in titles & translations use O157 (the letter O), not 0157 (the number zero)

Scope note

  • A verocytotoxin-producing serogroup belonging to the O subfamily of Escherichia coli which has been shown to cause severe food-borne disease. A strain from this serogroup, serotype H7, which produces SHIGA TOXINS, has been linked to human disease outbreaks resulting from contamination of foods by E. coli O157 from bovine origin.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019453

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