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2005 - Gale Group | TDA
Verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) are a newly recognized group of enteric pathogens which are increasingly being recognized as common causes of diarrhea in some geographic settings. Outbreak studies indicate that most patients with VTEC infection develop mild uncomplicated diarrhea. However, a significant ... hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic uremic syndrome, makes VTEC infection a public health problem of serious concern. The main reservoirs of VTEC appear to be the intestinal tracts of animals, ...
Tópico(s): Cancer Research and Treatments
1989 - American Society for Microbiology | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
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1997 - Gale Group | TDA
Verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) are a newly recognized group of enteric pathogens which are increasingly being recognized as common causes of diarrhea in some geographic settings. Outbreak studies indicate that most patients with VTEC infection develop mild uncomplicated diarrhea. However, a significant ... hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic uremic syndrome, makes VTEC infection a public health problem of serious concern. The main reservoirs of VTEC appear to be the intestinal tracts of animals, ...
Tópico(s): Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
1989 - American Society for Microbiology | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
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2000 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Enrique A. González, Jorge Blanco,
Serotypes and antibiotic resistance of 51 Verotoxigenic (VTEC) and 33 Necrotizing (NTEC) bovine Escherichia coli strains were determined and compared with those shown by 205 non-VTEC non-NTEC strains isolated from the same batch ... untypable for O-antigen represented 47% of the VTEC, 12% of the NTEC and 8.8% of the non-VTEC non-NTEC. Typable VTEC belonged to serotypes 02: K?, 0103: K-, 0104: ... 0123: K-, 0139: K- and 0153: K-. Non-VTEC non-NTEC showed a wide variety of serotypes which were generally unrelated to those found in VTEC and NTEC. VTEC were resistant to antibiotics at ...
Tópico(s): Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research
1989 - Oxford University Press | FEMS Microbiology Letters
Srikumar Sen, Boxing Correspondent, Victoria McKee, Liz Dolan, Anthony Harris, Julia Llewellyn Smith, Tom Hewitt, Paul Heiney, Edward Owen, S. M., Andrew Pierce, Anthony Howell, Sam Kiley Africa Correspondent, Timothy Pryse, Jane MacQuitty, Simon Barnes, Sarah Bagnall, Insurance Correspondent, Michael Scott Rohan, J. D. Hadley, John Diamond, Graham Rose, Philip Howard, Hilary Finch, George Sivell, Clive Davis, Julian Freeman-Attwood, David Robinson and John Marriott, Lynne Truss, Carl Mortished, Anne Robinson, Anita J. McGurk, Morag Preston, David Flusfeder, Tony Patrick, Tom Walker, Colin Narbrough, Kevin Eason, Meg Price, Geoff Brown, Gerald Davies, Joe Joseph, Robert Miller, Arthur Leathley Political Correspondent, Jeremy Laurance, Health Services Correspondent, Donald Maxwell, Nicholas Nightingale, Julian Desborough, Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent, Michael Ogden, Robert Sheehan, Peter Ball, Rumer Godden, Jim McCue, Nicholas Watt, Ireland Correspondent, Raymond Keene Chess Correspondent, Louise Taylor, Peter Waymark, Jeremy Laurance Health Services Correspondent, Peter Millar, Robin Young, Rodney Milnes, Richard Scott, Eve-Ann Prentice, David Hands, D. L. Armstrong, John Percival, Peter Barnard, Philip Bassett, Industrial Editor, John Hennessy, Derwent May, Simon Tait, B. J. Corsham, Susan Gilchrist, Ken Rogers, Jonathan Sale, Russell Kempson, E. J. Griffiths, Alfred Doll-Steinberg, Richard Cork, Stephen Anderton, George Sivell and Janet Bush, Jill Insley, Gillian Bowditch, Tim Bell, Barry Millington, Rodney Deitch, George Plumptre, Wolfgang Münchau, John Higgins, Gillian Bowditch, Scotland Correspondent, Duncan Cruickshank, C. M., S. P. Comer, Raymond Keene, Delyth Burton, Adam Sage, Gareth Huw Davies, Vaughan Freeman, Paul Morris, Emma Wilkins, John Russell Taylor, Paul Wilkinson, P. H. S, Marianne Darch, M. C. Fitzpatrick, Richard Evans, Nigel Hawkes, Heather Kirby, Caroline Merrell, Peter Clark and Christopher Turner, Eric Reguly, David Powell, Athletics Correspondent, Barry Pickthall, Maurice Glover, Roger Boyes, Robi Dutta, Stewart Tendler, Brian Beel, Donald Sweeting, Julian Muscat, Nicholas Wood, Chief Political Correspondent, Richard Duce, Anne Ashworth, Jack Crossley, Robert Sheehan Bridge Correspondent, Jane Bidder, Guy Walters, Giles Whittell, Nick Nuttall, Technology Correspondent, Henry Chadwick, Christopher Walker, Michael Kallenbach, Sara McConnell, Brian MacArthur, Gerald Larner, Andrew Miles, Alan Franks, Neil Bloom, Tim Wapshott, Monk, Jane Owen, Walter Gammie, Christine Wheeler, Megan Turner, Helen Pridham, Tony Dawe, Richard Beeston, Melanie Marshall, Caroline Garnham, Robert Miller and Neil Bennett, David Sinclair, Simon Jenkins, Stephen Pettitt, Martin Waller, Brian Mountford, Michael Horsnell, Benedict Nightingale, Tom Rhodes, Jonathan Meades, Jill Sherman, Political Correspondent, Paul Caspari, Richard Morrison, Olga Wikeley, Martin Waller Deputy City Editor, Penny Perrick, Sara McConnell and Morag Preston, Dr Dashboard, Hilary Kingsley, David Hands, Rugby Correspondent, Colin McQuillan, Christopher Irvine,
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1995 - Gale Group | TDA
Verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection is associated with a spectrum of clinical manifestations that includes diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). The ... in a minority of individuals in outbreaks of VTEC infection is a function of several pathogen and ... of developing HUS. Verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection is associated with a spectrum of clinical ... in a minority of individuals in outbreaks of VTEC infection is a function of several pathogen and ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2009 - Elsevier BV | Kidney International
Peter N. McLaine, Peter C. Rowe, Elaine Orrbine,
... the primary reservoir for verotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC), of which E. coli O157:H7 is the ... Scopus (240) Google Scholar Risk factors for contracting VTEC are numerous, ranging from ingestion of undercooked ground ... Scholar Risk factors for developing HUS after contracting VTEC are numerous and include:young age, old age12Rowe ... HUS was diagnosed in 205 children (77% with VTEC) and 582 children had uncomplicated VTEC gastroenteritis, of which 18 had hemolytic anemia (HA). ... with a provincial cohort, as all patients with VTEC have their isolates sent to one of their ...
Tópico(s): Transgenic Plants and Applications
2009 - Elsevier BV | Kidney International
Musafiri Karama, Carlton Gyles,
Summary Verotoxin‐producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) is annually incriminated in more than 100 000 cases of enteric foodborne human disease and in losses amounting to $US 2. ... of genotyping methods have been developed to track VTEC infections and determine diversity and evolutionary relationships among ... methods have facilitated monitoring and surveillance of foodborne VTEC outbreaks and early identification of outbreaks or clusters ... has been used extensively to track and differentiate VTEC because of its high discriminatory power, reproducibility and ...
Tópico(s): Probiotics and Fermented Foods
2009 - Wiley | Zoonoses and Public Health
Susan Read, Robert Clarke, Ana Isabel Martı́n, Stephanie A. De Grandis, John H. Hii, Scott McEwen, Carlton Gyles,
... implicated as important sources of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) associated with disease in humans. VTEC comprise a wide range of serotypes and produce ... reaction (PCR) procedure to detect all types of VTEC. Supernatants of boiled broth cultures of VTEC (223 strains) isolated from ground beef, ground pork, raw milk, bovine faeces and porcine faeces; non-VTEC E. coli (72 strains); and other enteric and ... verified by the Vero cell assay. All 223 VTEC isolates, comprising over 50 different serotypes, were detected ...
Tópico(s): Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
1992 - Elsevier BV | Molecular and Cellular Probes
David L. Woodward, Clifford G. Clark, Richard Caldeira, Rafiq Ahmed, Frank G. Rodgers,
BACKGROUND: Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) was first described in Canada during the 1980s as an emerging foodborne disease in association with morbidity and mortality in ... the surveillance activities and epidemiological laboratory markers of VTEC that are used at the National Laboratory for ... of E coli O157:H7 and non‐O157 VTEC in Canada. METHODS: Passive surveillance was conducted by obtaining data on laboratory confirmed cases of VTEC from the Provincial Laboratories of Public Health across ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2002 - Pulsus Group | Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
José A. Orden, María Dolores Cid Vázquez, José A. Ruiz-Santa-Quiteria, Santiago J. García, Susana Martínez González, Ricardo de la Fuente,
... the prevalence and characteristics of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and necrotoxigenic E. coli ( ... healthy cattle were screened for the presence of VTEC, EPEC and NTEC. Four isolates from each sample were studied. VTEC, EPEC and NTEC were isolated in 8·7%, ... 2% and 9·9% of the animals, respectively. VTEC and NTEC were isolated more frequently from calves ... 5%) of the 1648 E. coli isolates were VTEC, EPEC and NTEC, respectively. Seventeen (24·3%) of the VTEC strains were eae‐positive. Thirty‐six (51·4%) ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2002 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Applied Microbiology
Jorge Blanco, Miguel Blanco, Jesús E. Blanco, Azucena Mora, Enrique A. González, María Isabel Bernárdez, Marı́a Pilar Alonso, Amparo Coira, Asunción Rodríguez, Joaquı́n Rey, Juan Manuel Alonso Rodríguez, M. A. Usera,
... in many other countries, verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) strains have been frequently isolated from cattle, sheep, and foods. VTEC strains have caused seven outbreaks in Spain (six ... O171:H2, and OUT (O untypeable):H19. Different VTEC serotypes (e.g., O5:H – , O6:H10, O91: ... observations suggest a host serotype specificity for some VTEC. Numerous bovine and ovine VTEC serotypes detected in Spain were associated with human ... confirming that ruminants are important reservoirs of pathogenic VTEC. VTEC can produce one or two toxins (VT1 ...
Tópico(s): Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
2003 - SAGE Publishing | Experimental Biology and Medicine
Hussein S. Hussein, Stanley T. Omaye,
Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) have emerged in the past two decades as food-borne pathogens that can cause major outbreaks of human illnesses worldwide. ... systems, eating habits, microbial adaptation, and methods of VTEC transmission. The human illnesses range from mild diarrhea ... syndrome (HUS) that can lead to death. The VTEC outbreaks have been attributed to O157:H7 and ... O157:H7 has been the major cause of VTEC outbreaks. Worldwide, however, non-O157:H7 VTEC (e.g., members of the O26, O103, O111, ...
Tópico(s): Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
2003 - SAGE Publishing | Experimental Biology and Medicine
K. A. Bettelheim, Lothar Beutin,
1. Summary, 205 2. Introduction, 205 2.1 VTEC, a brief history, 206 2.2 The Vero (Shiga) toxin family, 206 2.3 VTEC O157: the confounding variable, 207 3. Current methods for identification of VTEC in samples of different origin, 207 3.1 DNA-based methodology for identification of VTEC by detection of VT/Stx genes, 208 3.2 Tissue culture methods to detect VTEC by their toxic effects on mammalian cells, 208 ... toxin (STEC) microplate assay, 210 4.4 The VTEC-Screen 'SEIKEN', 210 4.5 An adaptation of the VTEC-Screen 'SEIKEN', 210 5. Combined methods for detection ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
2003 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Applied Microbiology
Lothar Beutin, S Aleksić, Sonja Zimmermann, Kerstin Gleier,
... 2165 isolates 54 (2.5%) verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) were found. The 54 VTEC belonged to 13 different serotypes, 46 (85.2%) ... O111∶[H8] and O26∶[H11]. Of the 54 VTEC 50 (92.6%) hybridized with one or both ... probes specific for VT1 and VT2. The 4 VTEC strains which were negative for VT1 and VT2 differed from all other VTEC by many phenotypical trains such as serotype, production ... and effacing" (eae)-specific DNA sequences. In contrast, VTEC which were positive for VT1, VT2 or both ... 0%). With enterohemolysin as an epidemiological marker more VTEC strains (81.5%) could be identified than with ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
1994 - Springer Science+Business Media | Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Khaled A. Tarawneh, Nafe M. Al-Tawarah, Adel H. Abdel‐Ghani, A. M. Al-Majali, Khaled M. Khleifat,
... was conducted to determine the prevalence rate of VTEC in slaughtered sheep and goats and to evaluate the contamination rate of VTEC in slaughterhouses and butchers' shops in southern Jordan. ... and E-hly A. It was found that VTEC comprised 6.4% and 21% of the total ... small ruminants and slaughterhouses/ butchers' shops, respectively. The VTEC comprised 76.2% of the virulent isolates. The ... 1. It was found that the characterized complex VTEC (containing eae A and/or E-hly A) possessed three virulence patterns, including (VTEC) stx1 +eae A, (VTEC/EHEC) stx1 +E-hly ...
Tópico(s): Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Basic Microbiology
... of Salmonella spp., L. monocytogenes , verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC), and Campylobacter spp. in slaughtered cattle and in ... some modification by the use of PCR for VTEC. The isolated bacteria were then molecularly speciated ( Campylobacter ), ... for the presence of several virulence marker genes (VTEC and Campylobacter ). It was found that 49 hide ( ... the hides were positive for Campylobacter spp. and VTEC (27 samples) and Campylobacter spp. together with L. ... samples). Eight bovine hides contained L. monocytogenes and VTEC while L. monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. were detected ...
Tópico(s): Food Safety and Hygiene
2010 - De Gruyter | Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
Solvej Østergaard Breum, Jeppe Boel,
The prevalence of verocytotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC), E. coli O157, and VTEC O157 in 474 swab samples from Danish beef carcasses was determined. The presence of E. coli O157 was ... from 4.2% of the carcass samples and VTEC O157 from 3.4% of the samples. All VTEC O157 contaminated carcasses were from bull calves and the VTEC O157 prevalence on bull calf carcasses was 7.3%. The VTEC O157 contaminated beef carcasses were sampled again after ... and 15 of the 16 carcasses were then VTEC O157 negative. The presence of VTEC was determined ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2010 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Food Microbiology
S. Bonardi, Emanuela Foni, Chiara Chiapponi, A. Salsi, F. Brindani,
Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) has emerged as a foodborne pathogen that can cause severe and potentially fatal illnesses, such as hemorrhagic colitis or the ... randomly selected and tested for the presence of VTEC serogroups O26, O103, O111, O145, and O157 in ... immunomagnetic separation technique followed by slide agglutination. Presumptive VTEC 026, O103, O111, O145, and O157 isolates were ... of vtxl, vtx2, eae, and E-hlyA genes. VTEC O157 was detected in 6 (3.3%) of 182 animals, and VTEC 026 was detected in 1 (0.5%) of ...
Tópico(s): Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research
2007 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Food Protection
Kate M. Thomas, M.S. McCann, Mark M. Collery, Anna Logan, Paul Whyte, D.A. McDowell, Geraldine Duffy,
... investigate carriage and transfer of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157, O26, O111, O103 and O145 from faeces ... as well as establishing the virulence potential of VTEC carried by these cattle. Individual cattle was tracked ... by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE). Of the VTEC isolated, E. coli O157 was the most frequently ... pre-evisceration/post-wash carcass (0.7%) samples. VTEC O26 was isolated from 0.2% of hide swabs and 1.5% of faeces samples. VTEC O145 was isolated from 0.7% of faeces ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2011 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Food Microbiology
Narveen Jandu, Songhai Shen, Mark E. Wickham, Rohit Prajapati, B. Brett Finlay, Mohamed A. Karmali, Philip M. Sherman,
Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157:H7 inhibits interferon-γ-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat)-1 in epithelial cells, ... cause of disease in humans, non-O157:H7 VTEC also cause human disease. However, the virulence properties of non-O157:H7 VTEC are less well characterized. The aims of this study were to define the ability of VTEC strains of differing seropathotypes (classified as A–E) ... T84 and HEp-2 cells were infected with VTEC strains (MOI 100:1, 6 h, 37 °C), ...
Tópico(s): Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
2006 - Elsevier BV | Microbial Pathogenesis
Theda von Müffling, Muhamed Smaijlovic, B. Nowak, Katharina Sammet, Michael Bülte, Günter Klein,
... to gather more information on the spread of VTEC serotypes, genetic profiles and resistance patterns from pigs ... and Herzegovina (BiH), seven were identified as verotoxigenic (VTEC). In comparison, 22 VTEC of 264 E. coli isolates were isolated from ... and beef products (8) from Germany. Furthermore 23 VTEC of 76 isolates were identified from pig carcasses ( ... thus far not associated with human disease. Bovine VTEC were either serotypes commonly associated with human diseases ( ... found only in isolates from Sarajevo. Most German VTEC, especially those of porcine origin, had only vtx2 ...
Tópico(s): Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
2006 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Food Microbiology
Alexander Gill, Amalia Martinez-Perez, Sarah McIlwham, Burton W. Blais,
... the role of non-O157 verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) in foodborne illness underscores the importance of developing ... protocol for the detection, isolation, and characterization of VTEC from foods, designed for the serotype-independent enrichment, detection, and isolation of VTEC, in combination with rapid characterization of VTEC O157, O26, O103, O111, and O145. This study ... a panel of 18 different O serogroups of VTEC in modified tryptic soy broth. Considerable variability in ... the different antimicrobials tested was noted among different VTEC strains. The combination enabling growth of strains of ...
Tópico(s): Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Food Protection
Jacques Mainil, Georges Daube,
Verocytotoxigenic (shigatoxigenic) and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, VTEC (STEC) and EHEC, produce a toxin active on Vero cells in vitro. VTEC and EHEC have been isolated from humans and different ... ruminants can also act as asymptomatic carriers of VTEC and EHEC strains similar to those causing diseases ... But dozens of non-O157 human and ruminant VTEC and EHEC strains with similar general and virulence- ... compare the properties of human, ruminant and food VTEC and EHEC strains. Among the numerous classes of ...
Tópico(s): Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
2005 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Applied Microbiology
Anne Carroll, Aidan Gibson, Eleanor McNamara,
... frequency and distribution of human verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157 and non-O157 in the Republic of ... a complete laboratory-based surveillance of human clinical VTEC infection in the Republic of Ireland between 2002 ... 2002 and December 2004 a total of 207 VTEC isolates were studied (one isolate per patient), 185 ( ... 1 %) E. coli O111 and two (1 %) ungroupable VTEC. These isolates originated from the eight health boards ... represented over 90 % of the clinical cases of VTEC in the Republic of Ireland during this period. ...
Tópico(s): Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
2005 - Microbiology Society | Journal of Medical Microbiology
Carmen María Aránzazu Cejudo Cortés, Ricardo de la Fuente, Jorge Blanco, Miguel Blanco, Jorge Blanco, Ghizlane Dhabi, Azucena Mora, Paula Justel, A. Contreras, Antonio Sánchez, J.C. Corrales, José A. Orden,
... for the presence of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) and enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). VTEC and EPEC were isolated in 47.7 and 7.7% of the animals, respectively. VTEC were isolated more frequently from adults and replacement ... goat kids than from replacement animals and adults. VTEC or EPEC strains were not detected in the ... detected. The most frequent serotypes among the 106 VTEC strains isolated from goats were O5:H−, O76: ... O146:H21, ONT:H− and ONT:H21. None VTEC strain was eae-positive. The absence of the ...
Tópico(s): Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
2005 - Elsevier BV | Veterinary Microbiology
Darren J. Shaw, Claire Jenkins, Michael C. Pearce, T. Cheasty, George J. Gunn, G. Dougan, Henry R. Smith, Mark Woolhouse, Gad Frankel,
... the study. Strains of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) were isolated from these samples by using PCR ... and hemolysin ( ehxA ) genes. A total of 170 VTEC strains were isolated during 21 weeks from 130 ( ... gene. In addition, no calf shed the same VTEC serogroup (excluding O?) as its dam at birth ... calves were serogroup O26 and provisional serogroup E40874 (VTEC O26 was found in 25 calves), whereas in ... provisional serogroup E54071 were the most common serogroups. VTEC O26 shedding appeared to be associated with very ...
Tópico(s): Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
2004 - American Society for Microbiology | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Xinzhi Wang, Jia Junhui, Dongjie Yue, Fuyang Ke,
... Global Ionosphere Map (GIM) Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) data provided by the Center for Orbit Determination ... CODE), as well as the difference between GIM VTEC and International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) VTEC data. The ionospheric VTEC disturbances at the earthquake epicenter are examined before ... UTC 8 :00 on February 2, a strong VTEC disturbance emerged in the sky near the epicenter. A strong VTEC disturbance also emerged in the sky of the ... used in analysis of the difference between GIM VTEC and IRI VTEC information can effectively fill the ...
Tópico(s): Seismic Waves and Analysis
2014 - KeAi | Geodesy and Geodynamics