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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2000, p. 2440-2442, Vol. 38, No. 6
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Relationship of Genetic Type of Shiga Toxin to Manifestation of Bloody Diarrhea due to Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Serogroup O157 Isolates in Osaka City, Japan

Y. Nishikawa,1,* Z. Zhou,1,dagger A. Hase,1 J. Ogasawara,1 T. Cheasty,2 and K. Haruki1

Department of Health and Epidemiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, 8-34, 543-0026, Osaka, Japan,1 and Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, London NW9 5HT, United Kingdom2

Received 12 August 1999/Returned for modification 1 December 1999/Accepted 28 February 2000

One hundred sixty-nine strains of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroup O157 were examined for the correlation between the genotype of their Shiga toxin genes (stx) and manifestation of bloody diarrhea (BD). It was shown that the strains carrying only stx2vha were probably less virulent and caused BD less frequently.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, 558-8585, Japan. Phone: (06) 6605-2883. Fax: (06) 6605-2914. E-mail: nisikawa{at}life.osaka-cu.ac.jp.

dagger Present address: Changchun University of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Changchun, China.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2000, p. 2440-2442, Vol. 38, No. 6
0095-1137/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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