| Literature DB >> 14977993 |
Martina Bielaszewska1, Marina Fell, Lilo Greune, Rita Prager, Angelika Fruth, Helmut Tschäpe, M Alexander Schmidt, Helge Karch.
Abstract
We identified cytolethal distending toxin and its gene (cdt) in 17 of 340 non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains (serotypes O73:H18, O91:H21, O113:H21, and O153:H18), all of which were eae negative. cdt is either chromosomal and homologous to cdt-V (serotypes O73:H18, O91:H21, and O113:H21) or plasmidborne and identical to cdt-III (serotype O153:H18). Among eae-negative STEC, cdt was associated with disease (P = 0.003).Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14977993 PMCID: PMC356029 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.3.1812-1816.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441