1. Does Sequence Type 33 of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O91 Cause Only Mild Symptoms?
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Nanami Asoshima, Koichi Murakami, Nobuyuki Sera, Shuji Fujimoto, Mikiko Honda, Masanori Watahiki, Daisuke Onozuka, Yoshiki Etoh, Sunao Iyoda, Eriko Maeda, and Hiroshi Narimatsu
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Diarrhea ,Microbiology (medical) ,animal diseases ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,fluids and secretions ,medicine ,Humans ,Letters to the Editor ,Escherichia coli ,Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli ,Escherichia coli Infections ,Phylogeny ,Sequence (medicine) ,Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli ,Shiga toxin ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Abdominal Pain ,Mild symptoms ,biology.protein ,bacteria ,Multilocus sequence typing ,medicine.symptom ,Multilocus Sequence Typing - Abstract
The pattern of symptoms caused by Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O91 in Japan differs from that in European countries. STEC O91 is often isolated from sporadic adult cases of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in France ([1][1]), while in Germany, STEC O91 with sequence type 442 (
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- 2015
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