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Evidence of transmission of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O111 from a cattle stable to a child.

Møller Nielsen E, Jensen C, Lau Baggesen D

Statens Serum Institut, Unit of Gastrointestinal Infections, Copenhagen, Denmark. emn@ssi.dk

Infections with verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) other than O157 have been assumed to have the same epidemiology as those with VTEC O157, but the source of infection is rarely defined for sporadic cases. This report describes a child with VTEC O111:H- infection who was probably infected by playing in a cattle stable and/or by drinking raw milk from the cows in this stable. E. coli O111 isolates colonising the cattle were indistinguishable from the patient isolate by the use of serotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and virulence profiling.

Published 17 August 2005 in Clin Microbiol Infect, 11(9): 767-70.
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