Verotoxinogenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157:H7 - A nationwide Swedish survey of bovine faeces

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 43-52

  Albihn, A ^a   Eriksson, E ^a   Wallen, C ^a   Aspan A ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Between phage typing; PFGE

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; HEMOLYSIN; INTIMIN; VEROTOXIN;

CATTLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOLYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; MASS SCREENING; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWEDEN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CATTLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; PREVALENCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0642340643     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Ahmed R, Bopp C, Borcqyk A, Kasatiya S: Phage-typing scheme for Escherichia coli O157:H7. J. Infect. Dis. 1987, 155, 806-809.
2. Allison L, Stirra A, Thomson-Carter FM: Genetic heterogeneity of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Scotland and its utility in strain subtyping. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 1998, 17, 844-848.
3. Barrett TJ, Lior H, Green JH, Khakhria R, Wells JG, Bell BP, Greene KD, Lewis J, Griffin PM: Laboratory investigation of a multistate food-borne outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and phage typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1994, 32, 3013-3017.
4. Bonardi S, Maggi E, Bottarelli A, Pacciarini ML, Ansuin A, Vellini G, Moabito S, Caprioli A: Isolation of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 from cattle at slaughter in Italy. Vet. Microbiol. 1999, 67, 203-211.
5. Chapman PA, Wright DJ, Siddons CA: A comparison of immunomagnetic separation and direct culture for the isolation of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 from bovine faeces. J. Med. Microbiol. 1994, 40, 424-427.
6. Chapman PA, Siddons CA, Cerdan Malo AT, Harkin MA: A 1-year study of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Epidemiol. Infect. 1997, 119, 245-250.
7. Christensen JP, Skov MN, Hinz KH, Bisgaard M: Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar gallinarum in layers: epidemiological investigations of a recent outbreak in Denmark. Avian Pathol. 1994, 23, 489-501.
8. Crampin M, Willshaw G, Hancock R, Djuretic T, Elstob C, Rouse A, Cheasty T, Stuart J: Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 infection associated with a music festival. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 1999, 18, 286-288
9. Cray WC Jr & Moon HW: Experimental infection of calves and adult cattle with Escherichia coli O157:H7. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1995, 61, 1586-1590.
10. Gannon VP, D'Souza S, Graham T, King RK, Rahn K, Read S: Use of the flagellar H7 gene as a target in multiplex PCR assays and improved specificity in identification of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1997, 35, 656-662.
11. Grif K, Karch H, Schneider C, Daschner FD, Beutin L, Cheasty T, Smith H, Rowe B, Dierich MP, Allerberger F: Comparative study of five different techniques for epidemiological typing of Escherichia coli O157. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 1998, 32, 165-176.
12. Hancock DD, Besser TE, Kinsel ML, Tarr PI, Rice DH, Paros MG: The prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in dairy and beef cattle in Washington State. Epidemiol. Infect. 1994, 113, 199-297.
13. Hancock DD, Besser TE, Rice DH, Herriott DE, Tarr PI: A longitudinal study of Escherichia coli O157 in fourteen cattle herds. Epidemiol. Infect. 1997, 188, 193-195.
14. Heuvelink AE, van den Biggelaar FLAM, de Boer E, Herbes RG, Melchers WJG, Huis In'T Veld JHJ, Monnens LAH: Isolation and characterization of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 strains from Dutch cattle and sheep. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998, 36, 878-882.
15. Johnsen G, Wasteson Y, Heir E, Berget OI, Herikstad H: Escherichia coli O157:H7 in faeces from cattle, sheep and pigs in the southwest part of Norway during 1998 and 1999. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 2001, 10, 193-200.
16. Khakhria R, Duck D, LiorH: Extended phage-typing scheme for Escherichia coli O157:H7. Epidemiol. Infect. 1990, 105, 511-520.
17. Lahti E, Keskimaki M, Rantala L, Hyvonen P, Siitonen A, Honkanen-Buzalski T: Occurrence of Escherichia coli O157 in Finnish cattle. Vet. Microbiol. 2001, 79, 239-251.
18. Louie M, Read S, Louie L, Ziebel K, Rahn K, Borczyk A, Lior H: Molecular typing methods to investigate transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from cattle to humans. Epidemiol. Infect. 1999, 123, 17-24.
19. Mechie SC, Chapman PA, Siddons CA: A fifteen month study of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a dairy herd. Epidemiol. Infect. 1997, 118, 17-25.
20. Meyer-Broseta S, Bastian SN, Arne PD, Cerf O, Sanaa M: Review of epidemiological surveys on the prevalence of contamination of healthy cattle with Escherichia coli serogroup O157:H7. Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health. 2001, 203, 347-361.
21. Paiba GA, Gibbens JC, Pascoe SJ, Wilesmith JW, Kidd SA, Byrne C, Ryan JB, Smith RP, McLaren M, Futter RJ, Kay AC, Jones YE, Chappell SA, Willshaw GA, Cheasty T: Faecal carriage of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in cattle and sheep at slaughter in Great Britain. Vet. Rec. 2002, 150, 593-598.
22. O157. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1998, 36, 598-602.
23. Pradel N, Livrelli V, de Champs C, Palcoux J-B. Reynaud A, Scheutz F, Sirot J, Joly B, Forestier C: Prevalence and characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, food, and children during a one-year prospective study in France. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2000, 38, 1023-1031.
24. Rasmussen MA, Cray WC Jr, Casey TA, Whipp SC: Rumen contents as a reservoir of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 1993, 114, 79-84.
25. Richards MS, Corkish JD, Sayers AR, McLaren IM, Evans SJ, Wray C: Studies of the presence of verocytotoxic Escherichia coli O157 in bovine faeces submitted for diagnostic purposes in England and Wales and on beef carcases in abattoirs in the United Kingdom. Epidemiol. Infect. 1998, 120, 187-192.
26. SAS Institute Inc: SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 6, 4th edition, Volume 1, 1989, Cary, NC, SAS Institute Inc, USA, pp 851-889.
27. Sjöblad S, Larsson B, Kahlmeter G, Wadström T: Pojke fick SLT-associerat hemolytiskt uremiskt syndrom. Läkartidningen. 1989, 86, 2595-2596 (In Swedish).
28. Thrusfield M: Veterinary Epidemiology 2nd edition. Blackwell Science, Oxford UK, 1995, 479 pp.
29. Tutenel AV, Pierard D, Uradzinski J, Jozwik E, Pastuszczak M, Van Hende J, Uyttendaele M, Debevere J, Cheasty T, Van Hoof J, De Zutter L: Isolation and characterization of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 from cattle in Belgium and Poland. Epidemiol Infect. 2002, 129, 41-47.
30. van Donkersgoed J, Graham T, Gannon V: The prevalence of verotoxins, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella in the feces and rumen of cattle at processing. Can. Vet. J. 1999, 40, 332-338.
31. Watanabe H, Terajima J, Izumiya H, Wada A, Tamura K: Molecular analysis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli isolates in Japan and its application to epidemiological investigation. Pediatr. Int. 1999, 41, 202-208.
32. Willshaw GA, Smith HR, Cheasty T, Wall PG, Rowe B: Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 outbreaks in England and Wales, 1995: phenotypic methods and genotypic subtyping. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 1997, 3, 561-565.
33. Woodward MJ, Carroll PJ, Wray C: Detection of entero-and verocyto-toxin genes in Escherichia coli from diarrhoeal disease in animals using the polymerase chain reaction. Vet. Microbiol. 1992, 31, 251-261.
34. Wray C, McLaren IM, Carroll PJ: Escherichia coli isolated from farm animals in England and Wales between 1986 and 1991. Vet. Rec. 1993, 133, 439-442.