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Extended phage-typing scheme for Escherichia coli 0157:H7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

R. Khakhria ,
D. Duck  and
H. Lior
R. Khakhria
Affiliation:
National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OL2, Canada.
D. Duck
Affiliation:
National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OL2, Canada.
H. Lior
Affiliation:
National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OL2, Canada.
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In Canada, the number of human isolates of verotoxigenic (VT +ve) Escherichia coli 0157:H7 from diarrhoeal cases and haemolytic uraemic syndrome and haemorrhagic colitis has increased from 25 in 1982 to 2384 in 1989. A total of 3273 VT + ve E. coli 0157:H7 strains (3255 strains isolated in Canada and 18 isolates from other countries) were phage typed. The phage typing scheme has been extended from 14 to 62 phage types. Of these, five types occurred exclusively in other countries (type 47 in Japan; and types 49, 50, 51 and 52 in the U.K.). Thirty-five different phage types were identified in Canada; only nine of these (1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 21, 23, 31 and 32), each accounted for more than 1 % of the cases from human sources. The same nine types were the only ones observed among the isolates from non-human sources (meat and slaughter houses) suggesting a food-borne transmission in most of the human cases. Phage types 1 (30·5%); 4 (21%); 8 (13·5%); 31 (8·9%) and 14 (8%) were encountered in varying frequencies in most of the provinces; infrequently occurring phage types also showed regional variation. Thirteen different phage types were identified among 151 outbreaks representing 556 isolates of E. coli 0157:H7. More than one phage type were encountered in 12 outbreaks whereas in 141 outbreaks, all strains in each, had the same phage type.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 105 , Issue 3 , December 1990 , pp. 511 - 520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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