TY - JOUR AU - Coipan, Claudia AU - Friesema, Ingrid AU - van den Beld, Maaike J.C. AU - Bosch, Thijs AU - Schlager, Sabine AU - van der Voort, Menno AU - Frank, Christina AU - Lang, Christina AU - Fruth, Angelika AU - Franz, Eelco T1 - Sporadic Occurrence of Enteroaggregative Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 Similar to 2011 Outbreak Strain T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2022 VL - 28 IS - 9 SP - 1890 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe the recent detection of 3 Shiga toxin–producing enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 isolates from patients and 1 from pork in the Netherlands that were genetically highly similar to isolates from the 2011 large-scale outbreak in Europe. Our findings stress the importance of safeguarding food supply production chains to prevent future outbreaks. KW - Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli KW - STEC KW - zoonoses KW - foodborne infections KW - public health KW - enteroaggregative E. coli KW - O104:H4 KW - bacteria KW - enteric infections KW - food safety KW - the Netherlands KW - Austria DO - 10.3201/eid2809.220037 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/9/22-0037_article ER - End of Reference