Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ecuador: Animal reservoirs, yet no human disease

Gabriel Trueba; Verónica Garcés; Verónica Barragan V; Rebecca E. Colman; Meagan Seymour; Amy J. Vogler; Paul Keim

doi:10.1089/vbz.2012.1128

Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ecuador: Animal reservoirs, yet no human disease

Gabriel Trueba, Verónica Garcés, Verónica Barragan V, Rebecca E. Colman, Meagan Seymour, Amy J. Vogler, Paul Keim

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Escherichia coli O157:H7 is frequently isolated from cases of diarrhea in many industrialized countries; however, it is seldom found in developing countries. The present manuscript reports the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in Ecuadorian livestock, a country where enterohemorrhagic E. coli disease in humans has never been reported. The Ecuadorian isolates were genetically related to some strains linked to clinical cases in the United States as assessed by multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	295-298
Number of pages	4
Journal	Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Volume	13
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2012.1128
State	Published - 2013

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Ecuador
Escherichia coli O157:H7
Livestock

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Virology
Infectious Diseases

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