Volume 8, Number 1—January 2002
Research
Prevalence and Genetic Profiling of Virulence Determinants of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Cattle, Beef, and Humans, Calcutta, India
Asis Khan*, Shinji Yamasaki*†, Toshio Sato†, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy*, Amit Pal*, Simanti Datta*, Nandini Roy Chowdhury*, Suresh Chandra Das‡, Asim Sikdar‡, Teizo Tsukamoto§, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, Yoshifumi Takeda¶, and Gopinath Balakrish Nair*#
Table 4
Clinical manifestation and other information on patients from whom Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli was isolated
| STEC strain number | Clinical manifestation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stool characteristics | Age (years) | Sex | Religion | Vomiting | Fever | Dehydration | Other pathogen(s) present in the stool samples | |
| AK-11a AK-26a | Watery | 32 | M | H | Negative | Negative | Severe | Vibrio parahaemolyticus |
| None | Watery | 28 | F | MU | Positive | Positive | No | None |
| None | Watery | 17 | F | H | Positive | Positive | Moderate | None |
| AK-18 | Watery | 30 | M | H | Positive | Positive | Severe | V. cholerae O139 |
| AK-27a AK-28a AK-29a | Watery | 50 | M | O | Positive | Positive | Severe | V. cholerae O1 |
| AK-31 | Watery | 2 | M | H | Positive | Negative | Severe | None |
| AK-32 | Watery | 40 | F | O | Negative | Negative | Moderate | V . cholerae non-O1 non-O139 |
| AK-33 | Watery | 27 | M | MU | Positive | Positive | No | None |
| AK-14 | Bloody | 2½ | M | MU | Negative | Positive | No | V. parahaemolyticus, Shigella spp. |
| AK-30 | Bloody | 2 | F | MU | Negative | Positive | No | None |
| AK-40 | Bloody | 1½ | F | MU | Negative | Positive | Moderate | Shigella spp. |
aStrains isolated from one stool specimen but belonging to different serotypes.
H, Hindu; MU, Muslim; O, Other religion; M, male; F, female.
