Category Archives: EHEC

Hamburg EHEC E.coli O157 – Four More Cases

Posted on March 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Four new EHEC illnesses have occurred in Hamburg. Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) had been found in an 11 boy and a 3-year old kindergarten child. Also two women aged  68 and 88  in the borough Altona were diagnosed early last week with the same organism.

The two infected children are from Blankenese and were taken ill last week. The boy may have visited also the same school as a six-year girl who had died about two weeks ago.

EHEC serotype O157 was isolated from the girl that had died.

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Pathogenic potential of Escherichia coli O26

Posted on February 29, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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E. coli O26 and O157 have similar overall prevalences in cattle in Scotland, but in humans, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O26 (STEC O26) infections are fewer and clinically less severe than E. coli O157 infections. To investigate this discrepancy, E. coli O26 isolates from cattle and humans in Scotland and continental Europe were genotyped. The genetic background of some strains from Scotland was closely related to that of strains causing severe infections in Europe. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling found an association between haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and multilocus sequence type 21 strains and confirmed the role of stx2 in severe human disease.

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CDC – Advice Raw Sprouts

Posted on February 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Food Poisoning Bulletin

The most recent outbreak of food borne illness linked to raw sprouts is a restaurant-based outbreak of E. coli O26 associated with consumption of raw clover sprouts served on sandwiches at certain Jimmy John’s locations in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Wisconsin.

Like other restaurant chains and some large food retailers, Jimmy John’s has now removed sprouts from its menu offerings because of the inherent risk of pathogen contamination in this area of fresh produce.

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German Girl dies E.coli EHEC

Posted on February 22, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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The translation is rough and details sketchy, but Focus is reporting a 6-year-old girl from Hamburg died over the weekend from the effects of EHEC, which probably means some strain of shiga-toxin producing E. coli.

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