Impact of free verotoxin testing on epidemiology of diarrhea caused by verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
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Ramotar, K
RESUMO
During a 10-week period in the summer of 1990, an epidemiologic investigation of the prevalence of verotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli infection was conducted in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Consecutive stool specimens (n = 3,577) were cultured for E. coli O157:H7, and fecal filtrates were tested for free VTs (FVTs). E. coli O157:H7 was recovered from 22 specimens (0.6%), but VT was detected in 74 specimens (2.1%). Sixty-nine stool specimens positive for FVTs or E. coli O157:H7 were probed for VT genes by colony blot hybridization; 22 of 38 VT gene probe-positive isolates were non-O157:H7 E. coli organisms. Fourteen of 22 strains could not be induced to produce VT in vitro, despite the presence of FVTs in the stool sample, positivity on colony blot hybridization, positive PCR probes with the primers described by Pollard et al. (D. R. Pollard, W. M. Johnson, H. Lior, S. D. Tyler, and K. R. Rozee, J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:540-545, 1990) or Gannon et al. (V. P. Gannon, R. K. King, J. Y. Kim, and E. J. Golsteyn-Thomas, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:3809-3815, 1992) (but not those described by Karch and Meyer [H. Karch and T. Meyer, J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:2751-2757, 1989]), and positive Southern blot analysis of isolates in 10 of 14 strains. The patient survey questionnaire showed that E. coli O157:H7 infection was associated with bloody diarrhea of short duration, whereas infection with other serotypes or persistence of FVT only was associated with longer-duration nonbloody diarrheal illness.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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