Does Sequence Type 33 of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O91 Cause Only Mild Symptoms?
Does Sequence Type 33 of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O91 Cause Only Mild Symptoms?
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产志贺毒素大肠杆菌 O91 的序列类型 33 是否仅引起轻微症状?
DOI:
10.1128/jcm.02335-14
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2015
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Fujimoto S
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Maeda E;Murakami K;Etoh Y;Onozuka D;Sera N;Asoshima N;Honda M;Narimatsu H;Iyoda S;Watahiki M;Fujimoto S
European countries. STEC O91 is often isolated from sporadic adult cases of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in France (1), while in Germany, STEC O91 with sequence type 442 (ST442) occasionally causes HUS (2). In Japan, STEC O91 is a major non-O157 STEC O serogroup, and it is isolated mainly from asymptomatic carriers (for surveillance data, see http://www. nih. go. jp/niid/en/typhi-m/iasr-reference/230-iasr-data/2972-iasr-table-be-p. html [accessed 10 September 2014]). However, it is occasionally found in patients with minor symptoms, such as abdominal pain and watery diarrhea without HUS (3). The reasons for the differences in virulence of this enteropathogen between Japan and European countries remain unknown. Mellmann et al. subtyped STEC O91 isolates using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis and reported that all O91 isolates of ST33, and all single-locus variants, could be serotyped as O91: H14, O91: nonmotile, or O91: untypeable and demonstrated relatively low pathogenicity in humans (asymptomatic infection or causing watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, or bloody stool without HUS)(2).We characterized 50 STEC O91 isolates from humans in Japan by MLST, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and virulence-related gene detection. Six isolates were obtained from patients with watery diarrhea and abdominal pain but without HUS, fever, or bloody stool, and 44 isolates were obtained from asymptomatic carriers. Forty-eight of the isolates investigated in this study accounted for 23% of all