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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)

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

Basic Part Properties

Part Display Name
Escherichia coli O157
Part Type
Component (Describes the core component or analyte measured)
Created On
2006-02-27
Construct for LOINC Short Name
E coli O157

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zh-CN Chinese (China) 大肠埃希菌 O157
Synonyms: 大肠埃希菌(E coli、大肠埃希氏杆菌、大肠埃希氏菌、大肠杆菌) O157
fr-CA French (Canada) Escherichia coli O157
et-EE Estonian (Estonia) Escherichia coli O157
es-ES Spanish (Spain) Escherichia coli O157
it-IT Italian (Italy) Escherichia coli O157
tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) Escherichia coli O157
ru-RU Russian (Russian Federation) Escherichia coli O157
nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) Escherichia coli O157
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