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  1. Taxonomic Hierarchy
  2. Enterobacteriaceae
  3. Escherichia
  4. Escherichia coli
  5. enterovirulent Escherichia coli group
  6. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Preferred term

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Type

  • Organism

Definition

  • Information Strains of Escherichia coli with the ability to produce at least one or more of at least two antigenically distinct, usually bacteriophage-mediated cytotoxins: Shiga toxin 1 and Shiga toxin 2. These bacteria can cause severe disease in humans including bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome.

    Source: Medical Subject Headings 2012

    Type: Concept definition

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Synonyms

  • Shiga toxigenic E. coli
  • Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
  • STEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • STEC/VTEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • verotoxigenic E. coli
  • verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
  • verotoxin-producing E. coli
  • verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • VTEC (verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli)

Source

  • Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Second Edition Volume Two

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In other languages

  • Escherichia coli productora de la toxina shiga

    Spanish

  • Shiga toxigenic E. coli
  • Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
  • Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • STEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • STEC/VTEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • verotoxigenic E. coli
  • verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
  • verotoxin-producing E. coli
  • verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • VTEC (verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli)

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/187477

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