The diversity of Escherichia coli serotypes and biotypes in cattle faeces

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 699-709

  Bettelheim, K A ^a   Kuzevski, A ^a   Gilbert, R A ^b   Krause, D O ^b   McSweeney, C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistances; Cattle; Escherichia coli; VTEC

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CATTLE; CATTLE FEED; DIETARY TREATMENTS; E. COLI; FAECAL SAMPLES; SEROTYPES; TREATMENT GROUP; VTEC; Α-HEMOLYSIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; MOLASSES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIOTYPE; CATTLE; FECES;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CATTLE; DIET; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GRAIN; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEROCYTOTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 14844294796     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02501.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Acheson, D.W.K., Keusch, G.T., Lightowlers, M. and Donohue-Rolfe, A. (1990) Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for Shiga toxin and Shiga-like toxin II using P1 glycoprotein from hydatid cysts. Journal of Infectious Diseases 127, 1145-1150.
2. Akiba, M., Sameshima, T. and Nakazawa, M. (2000) Clonal turnover of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in experimentally infected cattle. FEMS Microbiological Letters 184, 79-83.
3. Aminov, R.I., Chee-Sanford, J.C., Garrigues, N., Teferedegne, B., Krapac, I.J., White, B.A. and Mackie, R.I. (2002) Development, validation, and application of PCR primers for detection of tetracycline efflux genes of gram-negative bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 1786-1793.
4. Aslam, M., Nattress, F., Greer, G., Yost, C., Gill, C. and McMullen, L. (2003) Origin of contamination and genetic diversity of Escherichia coli in beef cattle. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69, 2794-2799.
5. Bettelheim, K.A. (1995) Identification of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli by means of their production of enterohaemolysin. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 79, 178-180.
6. Bettelheim, K.A. (1997) Escherichia coli in the normal flora of humans and animals. In Escherichia coli: Mechanisms of Virulence ed. Sussman, M. pp. 85-109. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
7. Bettelheim, K.A. (2000) Role of non-O157 VTEC. Journal of Applied Microbiology 88 (Suppl S), 38S-50S.
8. Bettelheim, K.A. and Thompson, C.J. (1987) New method of serotyping Escherichia coli: implementation and verification. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 25, 781-786.
9. Bettelheim, K.A., Faiers, M. and Shooter, R.A. (1972) Serotypes of Escherichia coli in normal stools. The Lancet ii, 1224-1226.
10. Bettelheim, K.A., Hornitzky, M.A., Steven, P., Djordjevic, S.P. and Kuzevski, A. (2003) Antibiotic resistance among verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and non-VTEC isolated from domestic animals and humans. Journal of Medical Microbiology 52, 155-162.
11. Beutin, L., Montenegro, M.A., Orskov, I., Orskov, F., Prada, L., Zimmermann, S. and Stephen, R. (1989) Close association of the verocytotoxin (Shiga-like Toxin) production with enterohemolysin production in strains of Escherichia coli. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 27, 2559-2564.
12. Beutin, L., Grier, D., Steinruck, H., Zimmermann, S. and Scheutz, F. (1993) Prevalence and some properties of verotoxin (Shiga-like-toxin)-producing Escherichia coli in seven different species of healthy animals. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31, 2483-2488.
13. Beutin, L., Geier, D., Zimmermann, S., Aleksic, S., Gillespie, H.A. and Whittam, T.S. (1997) Epidemiological relatedness and clonal types of natural populations of Escherichia coli strains producing Shiga toxins in separate populations of cattle and sheep. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63, 2175-2180.
14. Blanco, M., Blanco, J.E., Mora, A., Dahbi, G., Alonso, M.P., Gonzalez, E.A., Bernardez, M.I. and Blanco, J. (2004) Serotypes, virulence genes, and intimin types of shiga toxin (Verotoxin)-producing Escherichia coli isolates from cattle in Spain and identification of a new intimin variant gene (eae-ξ). Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42, 645-651.
15. 1c Is the most common shiga toxin 1 subtype among shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates from sheep but not among isolates from cattle. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, 926-936.
16. Chandler, M.E. and Bettelheim, K.A. (1974) A rapid method of identifying Escherichia coli 'H' antigens. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, I. Abteilung Originale A 129, 74-79.
17. Djordjevic, S.P., Ramachandran, V., Bettelheim, K.A., Vanselow, B.A., Holst, P., Bailey, G. and Hornitzky, M.A. (2004) Serotypes and virulence gene profiles of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from feces of pasture-fed and lot-fed sheep. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70, 3910-3917.
18. Duffy, G. (2003) Verocytoxigenic Escherichia coli in animal faeces, manures and slurries. Journal of Applied Microbiology 94, 94S-103S.
19. Fagan, P.K., Hornitzky, M.A., Bettelheim, K.A. and Djordjevic, S.P. (1999) Detection of shiga-like toxin (stx) and (stx2), intimin (eaeA), and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) hemolysin (EHEC hlyA) genes in animal feces by multiplex PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65, 868-872.
20. Grozdanov, L., Raasch, C., Schulze, J., Sonnenborn, U., Gottschalk, G., Hacker, J. and Dobrindt, U. (2004) Analysis of the genome structure of the non-pathogenic probiotic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917. Journal of Bacteriology 186, 5432-5441.
21. Hacker, J. and Kaper, J.B. (2000) Pathogenicity islands and the evolution of microbes. Annual Review of Microbiology 54, 641-679.
22. Hornitzsky, M.A., Vanselow, B.A., Walker, K., Bettelheim, K.A., Corney, B., Gill, P., Bailey, G. and Djordjevic, S.P. (2002) Virulence properties and serotypes of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from healthy Australian cattle. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 6439-6445.
23. Jarvis, G.N., Kizoulis, M.G., Diez-Gonzalez, F. and Russell, J.B. (2000) The genetic diversity of predominant Escherichia coli strains isolated from cattle fed various amounts of hay and grain. FEMS Microbial Ecology 32, 225-233.
24. Kobayashi, H., Shimada, J., Nakazawa, M., Morozumi, T., Pohjanvirta, T., Pelkonen, S. and Yamamoto, K. (2001) Prevalence and characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from healthy cattle in Japan. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67, 484-489.
25. Konowalchuk, J., Speirs, J.L. and Stavric, S. (1977) Vero response to a cytotoxin of Escherichia coli. Infection and Immunity 18, 775-779.
26. Mason, T.G. and Richardson, G. (1981) A review, Escherichia coli and the human gut: some ecological considerations. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 51, 1-16.
27. McLellan, S.L., Daniels, A.D. and Salmore, A.K. (2003) Genetic characterization of Escherichia coli populations from host sources of fecal pollution by using DNA fingerprinting. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69, 2587-2594.
28. Midgley, J., Fegan, N. and Desmarchelier, P. (1999) Dynamics of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in feedlot cattle. Letters in Applied Microbiology 29, 85-89.
29. Okrend, A.J.G., Rose, B.E. and Matner, R. (1990) An improved screening method for the detection and isolation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from meat, incorporating the 3M Petrifilm™ test kit-HEC for hemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Journal of Food Production 53, 936-940.
30. 157. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 36, 598-602.
31. Perera, L.P., Marques, L.R.M. and O'Brien, A.D. (1988) Isolation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to Shiga-like toxin II of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli and use if the monoclonal antibodies in a colony enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 26, 2127-2131.
32. Pradel, N., Livrelli, V., De Champs, C., Palcoux, J.B., Reynaud, A., Scheutz, F., Sirot, J., Joly, B. et al. (2000) Prevalence and characterization of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, food, and children during a one-year prospective study in France. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38, 1023-1031.
33. Schmidt, H. (2001) Shiga-toxin-converting bacteriophages. Research in Microbiology 152, 687-695.
34. Sherley, M., Gordon, D.M. and Collignon, P.J. (2004) Evolution of multi-resistant plasmids in Australian clinical isolates of Escherichia coli. Microbiology 150, 1539-1546.
35. Sidjabat-Tambunan, H. and Bensink, J.C. (1997) Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli from the faeces of sheep, calves and pigs. Australian Veterinary Journal 75, 292-293.
36. Threlfall, E.J., Ward, E.R., Frost, J.A. and Willshaw, G.A. (2000) The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in food-borne bacteria. International Journal of Food Microbiology 62, 1-5.
37. Wieler, E.H., Vieler, E., Erpenstein, C., Schlapp, T., Steinruck, H., Bauerfeind, R., Byomi, A. and Baljer, G. (1996) Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains from bovines: association of adhesion with carriage of eae and other genes. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 34, 2980-2984.