Clinical significance of Escherichia albertii

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 488 - 492
• Main Authors: Ooka, Tadasuke, Seto, Kazuko, Kawano, Kimiko, Kobayashi, Hideki, Etoh, Yoshiki, Ichihara, Sachiko, Kaneko, Akiko, Isobe, Junko, Yamaguchi, Keiji, Horikawa, Kazumi, Gomes, Tânia A T, Linden, Annick, Bardiau, Marjorie, Mainil, Jacques G, Beutin, Lothar, Ogura, Yoshitoshi, Hayashi, Tetsuya
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-03-2012; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adhesins, Bacterial - genetics; Animals; attaching and effacing pathogen; Bacterial Toxins - genetics; Birds - microbiology; Cats; Dispatch; EHEC; enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; EPEC; escherichia; Escherichia - classification; Escherichia - genetics; Escherichia - isolation & purification; Escherichia albertii; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli - classification; Escherichia coli - genetics; Escherichia coli - isolation & purification; Escherichia coli Infections - diagnosis; Escherichia coli Infections - microbiology; Escherichia coli Proteins - genetics; Genes; Health aspects; Humans; intimin; Life sciences; Microbiologie; Microbiology; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Phenotype; Phylogeny; Physiological aspects; Sciences du vivant; Shiga toxin; Shiga Toxins - genetics; Japan; Germany
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.111401

Discriminating Escherichia albertii from other Enterobacteriaceae is difficult. Systematic analyses showed that E. albertii represents a substantial portion of strains currently identified as eae-positive Escherichia coli and includes Shiga toxin 2f-producing strains. Because E. albertii possesses the eae gene, many strains might have been misidentified as enterohemorrhagic or enteropathogenic E. coli.