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. 2017 Dec;23(12):2093-2095.
doi: 10.3201/eid2312.170450.

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O80:H2 in Young Calves with Diarrhea, Belgium

Damien Thiry, Marc Saulmont, Shino Takaki, Klara De Rauw, Jean-Noël Duprez, Atsushi Iguchi, Denis Piérard, Jacques G Mainil

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O80:H2 in Young Calves with Diarrhea, Belgium

Damien Thiry et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Dec.

Abstract

Serogroup O80 was detected in 40% of 104 enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from calves with diarrhea from 42 farms in Belgium during 2008‒2015. These isolates harbored the eae-ξ and fliCH2 genes, similar to the O80 attaching-effacing Shigatoxigenic E. coli isolates found in humans in France. This strain might be emerging.

Keywords: AE-STEC; Belgium; E. coli; EPEC; Escherichia coli; bacteria; diarrhea; diarrheic calves; eae-ξ gene; enteric infections; enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; farms; serotype O80:H2; zoonoses.

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