The detection of
EHEC by real-time PCR using the LightCycler([R]) platform was already developed in 2002, and published jointly (J.
Up to 17 epidemiologically unrelated
EHEC O157: H7/[H.
Dos de 94 aislados fueron cepas EPEC (eae y bfp), 10/94 cepas APEC atipicas (solamente eae) y 11/94 cepas
EHEC (dos de ellas eae positivas) (Cid et al.
EHEC strains cause acute inflammation in the intestine and bloody diarrhea, including abdominal pain with, rare but severe, secondary complications such as haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
WHO has reported more than 3,300 cases of infection with
EHEC and
As of yesterday, Germany has reported 1,536 cases of
EHEC infection (without HUS), including six deaths, an increase of 108 from the previous day.
While at first cucumbers from Spain were blamed for the
EHEC outbreak, scientists have revised their suspicion without naming other suspects.
coli infection including six fatalities while 12 other European countries had reported a total of 33 HUS cases (one fatal) and 64
EHEC cases with no fatality.
coli outbreak in Europe which showed Germany had reported 773 cases of HUS and 2374 cases of
EHEC infection.
EUROPE'S
EHEC RISK FOR TURKEY, HEALTH MINISTER WARNS
The development came as a restaurant in the northern German port of Lubeck was named as a possible source of the deadly E-coli strain
EHEC.
An estimated 502 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and 1,122 cases of
EHEC (enterohemorrhagic E.
