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

Preferred term

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • E coli, Enterohemorrhagic
  • EHEC
  • Enterohemorrhagic E coli
  • Enterohemorrhagic E. coli
  • Escherichia coli, Enterohemorrhagic

Note

  • infection: coordinate IM with ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS (IM); consider also HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME

Scope note

  • Strains of ESCHERICHIA COLI that are a subgroup of SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI. They cause non-bloody and bloody DIARRHEA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; and hemorrhagic COLITIS. An important member of this subgroup is ESCHERICHIA COLI O157-H7.

History note

  • 2008; use ESCHERICHIA COLI O157 1999-2007

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054324

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