TY - JOUR AU - Mellmann, Alexander AU - Bielaszewska, Martina AU - Köck, Robin AU - Friedrich, Alexander W. AU - Fruth, Angelika AU - Middendorf, Barbara AU - Harmsen, Dag AU - Schmidt, M. Alexander AU - Karch, Helge T1 - Analysis of Collection of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome–associated Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 8 SP - 1287 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Multilocus sequence typing of 169 non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) isolated from patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) demonstrated 29 different sequence types (STs); 78.1% of these strains clustered in 5 STs. From all STs and serotypes identified, we established a reference panel of EHEC associated with HUS (HUSEC collection). KW - Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli KW - EHEC KW - hemolytic uremic syndrome KW - HUS KW - HUSEC KW - serotyping KW - molecular phylogeny KW - MLST KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1408.071082 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1082_article ER - End of Reference