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J Med Microbiol 54 (2005), 605-607; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45938-0
© 2005 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Isolation of Escherichia coli O5 : H–, possessing genes for Shiga toxin 1, intimin-ß and enterohaemolysin, from an intestinal biopsy from an adult case of bloody diarrhoea: evidence for two distinct O5 : H– pathotypes

Catriona McLean1, Karl A Bettelheim2, Alexander Kuzevski2, Linda Falconer3 and Steven P Djordjevic3

1Department of Pathology, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia 2National Escherichia coli Reference Laboratory, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 3NSW Agriculture, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Microbiology and Immunology Section, New South Wales 2570, Australia

Correspondence Karl A. Bettelheim k.bettelheim{at}microbiology.unimelb.edu.au

Received October 22, 2004
Accepted February 10, 2005

Two typical coliforms from an intestinal biopsy from an adult case of bloody diarrhoea carried genes encoding intimin-ß, stx1 and ehxA, and produced verocytotoxin 1 and enterohaemolysin in culture. Both were biochemically typical Escherichia coli O5 : H–, apart from producing urease. Such O5 isolates represent a human pathogenic E. coli lineage.

Abbreviations: AEEC, attaching and effacing Escherichia coli; HUS, haemolytic uraemic syndrome; STEC, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli.






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