TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 in paediatric patients in Shenzhen, China
AU - Patil, Sandip
AU - Lopes, Bruno Silvester
AU - Liu, Sixi
AU - Wen, Feiqiu
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - Around 61% of the emerging infectious diseases are of zoonotic origin and spill over from animal reservoirs to humans.1 The Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC) was first detected in 1982 and was associated with foodborne outbreaks, resulting in haemorrhagic colitis that led to fatal haemolytic uraemic syndrome.2 In The Lancet Microbe, Timothy J Dallman and colleagues3 emphasised that the IIc lineage has emerged as the most prevalent lineage of STEC O157:H7 in England, UK. Furthermore, Hermos and colleagues show that both E coli O157 and E coli non-O157 can cause infections of the same severity in paediatric patients with bloody diarrhoea (aged ≤18 years).4
AB - Around 61% of the emerging infectious diseases are of zoonotic origin and spill over from animal reservoirs to humans.1 The Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC) was first detected in 1982 and was associated with foodborne outbreaks, resulting in haemorrhagic colitis that led to fatal haemolytic uraemic syndrome.2 In The Lancet Microbe, Timothy J Dallman and colleagues3 emphasised that the IIc lineage has emerged as the most prevalent lineage of STEC O157:H7 in England, UK. Furthermore, Hermos and colleagues show that both E coli O157 and E coli non-O157 can cause infections of the same severity in paediatric patients with bloody diarrhoea (aged ≤18 years).4
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U2 - 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00223-3
DO - 10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00223-3
M3 - Letter
C2 - 35933993
AN - SCOPUS:85142430022
SN - 2666-5247
VL - 3
JO - The Lancet Microbe
JF - The Lancet Microbe
IS - 11
M1 - e809
ER -