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Volume 7, Number 5—October 2001

Research

Factors Contributing to the Emergence of Escherichia coli O157 in Africa

Paul Effler*Comments to Author , Margaretha Isaäcson†, Lorraine Arntzen†, Rosemary Heenan‡, Paul Canter§, Timothy Barrett*, Lisa Lee*, Clifford Mambo§, William Levine*, Akbar Zaidi*, and Patricia M. Griffin*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa; ‡GOAL, Dublin, Ireland; §Ubombo Sugar Limited, Big Bend, Swaziland

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Figure 1

Map of the area affected by an outbreak of diarrheal illness in 1992.a aPulsed-field gel electrophoresis of 31 of the Escherichia coli O157:NM isolates from six locations identified three distinct patterns, designated A, B and C; the locations where these isolates were obtained are indicated on the map by the corresponding letter. Not shown on the map is Empangeni, South Africa, located approximately 200 km south of Swaziland border, where E. coli O157 was also recovered. The Usutu River is also

Figure 1. . Map of the area affected by an outbreak of diarrheal illness in 1992.a aPulsed-field gel electrophoresis of 31 of the Escherichia coli O157:NM isolates from six locations identified three distinct patterns, designated A, B and C; the locations where these isolates were obtained are indicated on the map by the corresponding letter. Not shown on the map is Empangeni, South Africa, located approximately 200 km south of Swaziland border, where E. coli O157 was also recovered. The Usutu River is also called the Lusutfu River.

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