Shiga toxin
A Comparison of Culture- and PCR-Based Methods to Detect Six Major Non-O157 Serogroups of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Cattle Feces.
... Culture-based methods to detect the six major non-O157 (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 and O145) Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) are not well established. Our objectives of this study were to develop a ...
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Comparative genomic analysis of two novel sporadic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 strains isolated 2011 in Germany.
... a Shiga toxin characteristic of enterohemorrhagic ...of Shiga toxin-producing ...a Shiga toxin-mediated cytotoxicity towards Vero cells and aggregative adherence to Hep-2 cells ...
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Shiga toxin and lipopolysaccharide induce platelet-leukocyte aggregates and tissue factor release, a thrombotic mechanism in hemolytic uremic syndrome.
... HUS develops as a complication of Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection of which serotype O157:H7 is the most commonly detected. HUS is characterized by non-immune ...
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Molecular investigation of tRNA genes integrity and its relation to pathogenicity islands in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains
... Gonzalez AGM, Cerqueira AMF, Guth BEC, Souza RM, Liberal MH, Pombo CR, Joaquim RM, Coutinho CA, Domínguez RMP and Andrade JRC (2001) Characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and ...
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Occurrence of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in dogs with diarrhea
... of Shiga toxin-producing (stx 1 and stx 2) and intimin (eae) ...the Shiga toxin genes (7 the stx 1 ...non Shiga toxin- ...
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Inability to decarboxylate lysine as a presumptive marker to identify shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains of serogroup 0111
... 1. Banatvala, N., P. M. Griffin, K. D. Greene, T. J. Barret, W. F. Bibb, J. H. Green, J. G. Wells, and the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study Collaborators. 2001. The United States national prospective hemolytic uremic ...
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Virulence properties and characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1976 through 1999
... 7. Cantarelli, V., K. Nagayama, A. Takahashi, T. Honda, P. F. Cauduro, C. A. G. Dias, A. Mezzari, and T. Brodt. 2000. Isolation of Shiga toxin- producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotype O91:H21 from a ...
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Subtilase Cytotoxin-Encoding subAB Operon Found Exclusively among Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains
... 20. Pigatto, C. P., R. P. Schocken-Iturrino, E. M. Souza, F. O. Pedrosa, L. Comarella, K. Irino, M. A. M. F. Kato, S. M. S. S. Farah, J. F. Warth, and C. M. T. Fadel-Picheth. 2008. Virulence properties and antimicrobial ...
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First description of a Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O103:H2 strain isolated from sheep in Brazil
... 12. Aidar-Ugrinovich L, Blanco J, Blanco M, Blanco JE, Leomil L, Dahbi G, Mora A, Onuma DL, Silveira WD, Pestana de Castro AF (2007) Serotypes, virulence genes, and intimin types of Shiga toxin-producing ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from children in São Paulo, Brazil
... The biochemical and serological characteristics, virulence properties, and genetic relatedness of Shiga toxin- producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains isolated in São Paulo, from April 1989 through March ...
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Prevalence of Shiga Toxin-Producing and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in Wild and Pet Birds in Iran
... The result of the current study showed a low prevalence of STEC in wild and pet birds in Iran. The prevalence of STEC has been investigated in different bird species in other geographical regions. Farooq et al. (2009) ...
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Prevalence and characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains in ground beef in São Paulo, Brazil
... This study aims to assess the prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in ground beef collected in two cities located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. A total of 250 samples of raw ...
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Circulating microRNAs in patients with Shiga-Toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 induced hemolytic uremic syndrome.
... Our study is the first clinical evaluation of circulating miRNAs in patients presenting with hemolytic uremic syndrome due to an infection with Shiga toxin-producing enterohemorrhagic Esche- richia coli ...
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Development and Characterization of Recombinant Antibody Fragments That Recognize and Neutralize In Vitro Stx2 Toxin from Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli
... Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are bacterial pathogens responsible for a spectrum of diseases, ranging from asymptomatic carriage (rare) to diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic ...
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Genetic Diversity and Virulence Potential of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O113:H21 Strains Isolated from Clinical, Environmental, and Food Sources
... Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains of serotype O113:H21 have caused severe human diseases, but they are unusual in that they do not produce adherence factors coded by the locus of enterocyte ...
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Adhesin-Encoding Genes from Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Are More Prevalent in Atypical than in Typical Enteropathogenic E. coli
... Four of six adhesin-encoding genes (lpfA, paa, iha, and toxB) from Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains were detected in typical and atypical enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) strains of various ...
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Interaction between Shiga Toxin and Monoclonal Antibodies: Binding Characteristics and in Vitro Neutralizing Abilities
... active toxin and is often used as the gold standard to evaluate diagnostic immunoassays ...ProSpecT Shiga Toxin (Alexon-Trend, US), Immunocard STAT! EHEC (Meridian Diagnostics, US) and Duopath ...
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Failure of manganese to protect from Shiga toxin.
... Shiga toxin (Stx), the main virulence factor of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli, is a major public health threat, causing hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic ...
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Determination of Adhesin Gene Sequences in, and Biofilm Formation by, O157 and Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Different Sources
... Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a food- borne pathogen that causes hemorrhagic colitis (HC) and he- molytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). E. coli O157:H7 is the major STEC serotype involved in ...
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Genetic heterogeneity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1976 through 2003, as revealed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
... 46 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains isolated in Sa ˜o Paulo, Brazil, during the period from 1976 to 2003 were compared with those found among 30 non-STEC strains that carried eae and ...
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