82303-9

Escherichia coli O157 [Presence] in Stool by Culture

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LP36684-6   Escherichia coli O157
Escherichia coli O157 is an enterohemorrhagic strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli and an emerging cause of foodborne illness. An estimated 73,000 cases of infection and 61 deaths occur each year in the United States alone, although it is rarer in less industrialized countries. Infection often leads to bloody diarrhea, and occasionally to kidney failure. Most illness has been associated with eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef, although it is also transmitted by person-to-person contact, produce, drinking unpasteurized milk or swimming in or drinking contaminated water. The 2006 United States E. coli outbreak was linked to a large quantity of spinach contaminated with this strain. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Escherichia coli O157 (Wikipedia)

LP36684-6   Escherichia coli O157
A verocytotoxin-producing serogroup belonging to the O subfamily of Escherichia coli which has been shown to cause severe food-borne disease. Recently, a strain from this serogroup, serotype H7 which produces Shiga-like toxins, has been linked to human disease outbreaks resulting from contamination of foods from bovine origin. This serogroup causes hemorrhagic and HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME and predominantly hemorrhagic diarrhea and GASTROENTERITIS in children. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006

LP6209-3   Culture
A culture is a laboratory procedure where a sample of tissue or fluid from a patient is placed in or on growth media (agar, broth) to induce the proliferation of potentially infectious agents (bacteria, fungi, viruses). The presence of growth is documented and the organisms are identified to determine whether or not a pathogen is present.
Once a pathogen is identified, specific testing techniques can be used to determine drug susceptibilities for assistance in treatment. [https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-microbiology/chapter/culturing-bacteria/] Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Fully-Specified Name

Component

Escherichia coli O157

Property

PrThr

Time

Pt

System

Stool

Scale

Ord

Method

Culture

Additional Names

Short Name

E coli O157 Stl Ql Cult

Display Name

E. coli O157 Cx Ql (Stl)

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Escherichia coli O157 culture, Stool

Example Answer List: LL3794-6

Basic Attributes

Class

MICRO

Type

Laboratory

First Released

Version 2.58

Last Updated

Version 2.58

Order vs. Observation

Observation

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Related Names

• Bowel movement
• C&S
• Cult
• Cultures
• E coli
• E coli O157
• Faecal
• Faeces
• Fecal
• Feces
• Gastro
• Gastroenterology
• GI
• ID
• Infectious Disease
• InfectiousDisease
• Microbiology
• o002
• Ordinal
• Point in time
• PR
• QL
• Qual
• Qualitative
• Random
• Screen
• Stl
• Stool = Fecal

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