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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2005

Shiga toxin 2e-producing Escherichia coli isolates from humans and pigs differ in their virulence profiles and interactions with intestinal epithelial cells.

Anne-Katharina Sonntag, Martina Bielaszewska, Alexander Mellmann, Nadine Dierksen, Peter Schierack, Lothar H Wieler, M Alexander Schmidt, Helge Karch

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Anne-Katharina SonntagInstitute of Hygiene and the National Consulting Laboratory on Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, University Hospital Münster, Robert Koch Str. 41, Münster, Germany.
Martina Bielaszewska
Alexander Mellmann
Nadine Dierksen
Peter Schierack
Lothar H Wieler
M Alexander Schmidt
Helge Karch

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Abstract

Thirteen Escherichia coli strains harboring stx2e were isolated from 11,056 human stools. This frequency corresponded to the presence of the stx2e allele in 1.7% of all Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) strains. The strains harboring stx2e were associated with mild diarrhea (n = 9) or asymptomatic infections (n = 4). Because STEC isolates possessing stx2e are porcine pathogens, we compared the human STEC isolates with stx2e-harboring E. coli isolated from piglets with edema disease and postweaning diarrhea. All pig isolates possessed the gene encoding the F18 adhesin, and the majority possessed adhesin involved in diffuse adherence; these adhesins were absent from all the human STEC isolates. In contrast, the high-pathogenicity island encoding an iron uptake system was found only in human isolates. Host-specific patterns of interaction with intestinal epithelial cells were observed. All human isolates adhered to human intestinal epithelial cell lines T84 and HCT-8 but not to pig intestinal epithelial cell line IPEC-J2. In contrast, the pig isolates completely lysed human epithelial cells but not IPEC-J2 cells, to which most of them adhered. Our data demonstrate that E. coli isolates producing Shiga toxin 2e have imported specific virulence and fitness determinants which allow them to adapt to the specific hosts in which they cause various forms of disease.

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AnimalsCell LineDiarrheaDNA PrimersEdemaEscherichia coliFecesHumansIntestinal MucosaShiga Toxin 2Species SpecificitySwineSwine DiseasesVirulenceDNA PrimersShiga Toxin 2

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PMID16332882
PMCPMC1317431

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