Verotoxin production among porcine strains of Escherichia coli and its association with oedema disease
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 24 (4), 359-362
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-24-4-359
Abstract
Summary Strains of Escherichia coli isolated from documented cases of disease in pigs and belonging to a wide range of pathogenic serotypes were tested for their ability to produce a heat labile verotoxin (VT). The strains isolated from oedema disease all produced VT, indicating that the cytotoxin detected by the vero-cell assay was identical to “oedema disease principle”. Strains belonging to the serotypes associated with enterotoxic diarrhoea were VT−. Not all the strains belonging to the recognised oedema disease serotypes (O141:K85, O139:K82 and 0138.K81) produced VT, but the VT− strains were not associated with outbreaks of clinical disease.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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