Monthly Archives: June 2011

Was the recent outbreak of VTEC O104 infections in Europe caused by EHEC?

Posted on 2011-06-10 by kaggen

The recent outbreak of VTEC  (verotoxin producing E. coli) O104 infections in Europe, leading in some cases to the serious complication HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome), was first suspected to be caused by consumption of vegetables contaminated by Escherichia coli of … Continue reading →

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New images of Streptococcus canis

Posted on 2011-06-09 by kaggen

Six new images of Streptococcus canis has been included in VetBact. Fereshteh Banihashem (Natl. Vet. Inst., Uppsala) has prepared the agar plates for morphological comparisons and Lise-Lotte Fernström (SLU) has performed the Gram staining and the CAMP test. S. canis … Continue reading →

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Escherichia coli, EHEC and HUS

Posted on 2011-06-03 by kaggen

Today it was written in Svenska Dagbladet (a daily journal in Sweden) that “A new bacterium transmitts ehec”. It is unfortunately a very common mistake among Swedish journalists to confuse the bacterium with the disease. Correctly, it should have been … Continue reading →

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