Escherichia coli harboring Shiga toxin 2 gene variants: frequency and association with clinical symptoms.

By A. Friedrich, M. Bielaszewska, Wen-lan Zhang, M. Pulz, T. Kuczius, A. Ammon, H. Karch. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002

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Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections in the United States, 1983-2002. (2005, neutral): “HUS [20, 47, 49–54].”
Recent Advances in Understanding Enteric Pathogenic Escherichia coli (2013, background): “In one study, stx2 and a variant, stx2c, were the only subtypes found from HUS cases (253).”
Multicenter Evaluation of a Sequence-Based Protocol for Subtyping Shiga Toxins and Standardizing Stx Nomenclature (2012, methodology): “Using the protocol developed in this study, HUSEC028 strain serotype O128:H2, previously described as stx2d by classical typing (16), was subtyped as stx2b (Table 3).”
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli: emerging issues on virulence and modes of transmission. (2005, background): “Among the Stx2 variants, Stx2 and Stx2c have been frequently found in strains isolated from patients with HUS, while strains producing Stx2d are usually isolated from cases of uncomplicated diarrhoea [53].”
Pathogenicity Islands in Bacterial Pathogenesis (2004, background): “Recently, Stx1 variants have been described (105, 234, 383).”