Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 1st, 2007
To the Editor: Data collected from expanded surveillance study suggest that more than half of Idaho Shiga toxin--producing Escherichia coli (STEC) illnesses are caused by non-0157 serotypes. Using data from a regional medical center whose stool culture protocol included Shiga toxin testing, we predicted Idaho's STEC incidence to be significantly higher if non-O157 STEC E. coli were routinely detected by immunoassay. Recent findings suggest that the prediction was accurate in an expanded surveillance area.
Several studies have shown an increased incidence of non-O157 STEC infections in the U...
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