Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Dispatch
Human Infections with Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Other Than Serogroup O157 in Germany
Lothar Beutin
, Sonja Zimmermann, and Kerstin Gleier
, Sonja Zimmermann, and Kerstin GleierTable 1
Non-O157 STEC infections in human patients in Germany, 1996
| STEC serotypes |
No. of STEC strains with properties |
Clinical status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O-groupa no. of strains) | H-typesb | Stx1 | Stx2 | Stx1+ Stx2 | eaeA | Entero-hemolytic | Asympto- matic | Non- bloody diarrhea | Bloody diarrhea | HUSc |
| O5 (1) | NM | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| O18 (1) | H15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1d | 0 | 0 |
| O26 (20) | H11, NT, NM | 16 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 17 | 2d,e | 0 |
| O76 (3) | H19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| O78 (1) | NM | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| O84 (1) | NT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1d | 0 | 0 |
| O91 (4) | H14, NM | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| O103 (7) | H2, H7, NT | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5d | 1 | 1 |
| O111 (3) | NT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| O113 (3) | H32, NT | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| O118 (8) | H12, H16 NT | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6d | 1 | 1 |
| O128 (5) | H2, NM | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| O145 (6) | H28, NM | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| O146 (5) | H21,H28 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1d | 0 |
| O163 (1) | H19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ONT (3) | ND | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| O-rough (17) | ND | 13 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 0 |
| Total (89) | 59 | 11 | 19 | 54 | 82 | 6 | 72 | 7 | 4 | |
aONT= O-antigen not typable; O-rough= rough LPS, O-antigen not typable.
bNM= nonmotile; ND= H-antigen not determined; NT= H-antigen not typable.
cHUS= hemolytic uremic syndrome.
dA case of double infection with Salmonella enterica sp.
eA case of a double infection with STEC O26:H11 and O157:H7.
