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ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2023

O-Antigen Diversification Masks Identification of Highly Pathogenic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4-Like Strains.

Christina Lang, Angelika Fruth, Ian W Campbell, Claire Jenkins, Peyton Smith, Nancy Strockbine, François-Xavier Weill, Ulrich Nübel, Yonatan H Grad, Matthew K Waldor and 1 more

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Article in Microbiology spectrum, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Microbiology and epidemiology of enteroaggregativeJournal of medical microbiology · 2025
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  4. Genomic Markers Distinguishing Shiga Toxin-ProducingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Shiga toxin-producingFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Christina LangDivision of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella, National Reference Centre for Salmonella and Other Enteric Bacterial Pathogens, Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany.
Angelika FruthDivision of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella, National Reference Centre for Salmonella and Other Enteric Bacterial Pathogens, Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany.
Ian W CampbellDepartment of Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3019-2560
Claire JenkinsGastro and Food Safety (One Health) Division, Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Peyton SmithDivision of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Nancy StrockbineDivision of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
François-Xavier WeillInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Paris, France.
Ulrich NübelLeibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3131-1656
Yonatan H GradDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5646-1314
Matthew K WaldorDepartment of Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1843-7000
Antje FliegerDivision of Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Legionella, National Reference Centre for Salmonella and Other Enteric Bacterial Pathogens, Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3819-2979

Funding

TRAINING IN PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY &NUTRITIONT32DK007477 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI Scott B Snapper · 1986 to 2026
$13.3M
Vibrio cholerae intestinal colonization and vaccine developmentR01AI042347 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI WALDOR, MATTHEW K · 1998 to 2025
$7.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI042347NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can give rise to a range of clinical outcomes from diarrhea to the life-threatening systemic condition hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). Although STEC O157:H7 is the serotype most frequently associated with HUS, a major outbreak of HUS occurred in 2011 in Germany and was caused by a rare serotype, STEC O104:H4. Prior to 2011 and since the outbreak, STEC O104:H4 strains have only rarely been associated with human infections. From 2012 to 2020, intensified STEC surveillance was performed in Germany where the subtyping of ~8,000 clinical isolates by molecular methods, including whole-genome sequencing, was carried out. A rare STEC serotype, O181:H4, associated with HUS was identified, and like the STEC O104:H4 outbreak strain, this strain belongs to sequence type 678 (ST678). Genomic and virulence comparisons revealed that the two strains are phylogenetically related and differ principally in the gene cluster encoding their respective lipopolysaccharide O-antigens but exhibit similar virulence phenotypes. In addition, five other serotypes belonging to ST678 from human clinical infection, such as OX13:H4, O127:H4, OgN-RKI9:H4, O131:H4, and O69:H4, were identified from diverse locations worldwide.

Indexed as

Escherichia coli InfectionsEscherichia coli O104Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coliHumansMasksO AntigensShiga ToxinO AntigensShiga ToxinO104:H4O-antigen diversificationphylogenyrisk profilingShiga toxin-producing E. coli

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PMID37212677
PMCPMC10269612

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