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Volume 28, Number 9—September 2022
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Sporadic Occurrence of Enteroaggregative Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 Similar to 2011 Outbreak Strain

Claudia E. Coipan, Ingrid H. Friesema, Maaike J.C. van den Beld, Thijs Bosch, Sabine Schlager, Menno van der Voort, Christina Frank, Christina Lang, Angelika Fruth, and Eelco FranzComments to Author 

Author affiliations: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (C.E. Coipan, I.H. Friesema, M.J.C. van den Beld, T. Bosch, E. Franz); Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Graz, Austria (S. Schlager); Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands (M. van der Voort); Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (C. Frank); Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany (C. Lang, A. Fruth)

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Table

Overview of strains used in study of enteroaggregative Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 from the Netherlands*

Strain Country Source Year Reference/source
11-4632-C2 France Patient 2011 (13)
11-3798 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-02030 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-02033 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-02092 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-02093 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-02281 Germany Patient 2011 (13)
11-06811 Germany Patient 2011 (14)
F338 Netherlands Patient 2013 (8)
381-1 Netherlands Patient 2013 (8)
12-01621 Germany Long-term shedder 2012 †
12-02462 Germany Long-term shedder 2012 †
12-05378 Germany Long-term shedder 2012 †
ESBL3427 Netherlands Pork 2017 †
NL1981 Netherlands Patient 2019 †
NL2076 Netherlands Patient 2020 †
MRV-21-00239 Austria Patient 2021 †
2015EL-1494M1 United States Human NA Enterobase
TIAC1951 Belgium NA 2003 Enterobase
09-7901 France NA 2009 Enterobase
2012C-3196 United States NA 2012 Enterobase
FORC_069 South Korea Human 2016 Enterobase
PSU-0479 South Korea NA 2000 Enterobase
NCCP15648 South Korea Human 2001 Enterobase
1060_13 United Kingdom Human 2014 Enterobase
55989 Central African Republic Human 2002 Enterobase
201909204 France Human 2019 Enterobase
216_13 United Kingdom Human 2014 Enterobase
SCPM-O-B-9428 Russia Human 2018 Enterobase
SCPM-O-B-9427 Russia Human 2018 Enterobase
201600757 France Human 2016 Enterobase
2011C-3907 United States NA 2011 Enterobase
2012C-3808 United States Human 2012 Enterobase
2014C-3008 United States NA 2013 Enterobase
E90/11 Germany Human 2011 Enterobase
GOS1 NA Human 2011 NCBI
H112180541 United Kingdom Human 2011 NCBI
H112180283 United Kingdom Human NA NCBI
H112180540 United Kingdom Human NA NCBI
11-02913 Germany Human 2011 Enterobase

*NA, not available; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information. †Genome sequence raw data files are available from the European Nucleotide Archive (projects PRJNA174138 and PRJEB49642).

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