Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016
Dispatch
Secondary Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infection, Japan, 2010-2012
Tomoko Morita-Ishihara
, Sunao Iyoda, Atsushi Iguchi, and Makoto Ohnishi
, Sunao Iyoda, Atsushi Iguchi, and Makoto Ohnishi
Table 2
Serotypes and stx types of eae-positive Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli isolates from healthy adults, Japan, 2010–2012
| Serotype |
No. eae-positive isolates* |
No. stx-positive isolates† |
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| stx1 |
stx1/stx2 |
stx2 |
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| O103: | H2 | 21 | 21 | ||
| H11 |
1 |
1 |
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| O157: | H7 | 10 | 2 (stx2a) | 8 (stx2a [1], stx2c [7]) | |
| H- |
3 |
1 |
2 (stx2c) |
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| O26: |
H11 |
6 |
6 |
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| O156: | H- | 2 | 2 | ||
| HUT |
2 |
2 |
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| O145: |
H- |
2 |
1 |
1 (stx2a) |
|
| O76: |
H7 |
1 |
1 |
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| O121: |
H19 |
1 |
1 (stx2a) |
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| O177: |
H- |
1 |
1 |
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| O |
Yntypeable |
5 |
3 |
2 (stx2c [1], stx2e [1]) |
|
| Total | 55 | 39 | 5 | 11 | |
*The number of eae-negative isolates among the same serotype: O103:H2 (1), O76:H19 (5), O76:H- (1).
†The name of the positive subtype is in parentheses; the number subtype-positive isolates are in brackets.
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