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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Taxonomic Hierarchy > Eubacteria > Proteobacteria > gamma-Proteobacteria > Enterobacteriales > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia > Escherichia coli > enterovirulent Escherichia coli group > Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
Preferred Term:

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Definition:
Strains of Escherichia coli with the ability to produce at least one or more of at least two antigenically distinct, usually bacteriophage-mediated cytotoxins: Shiga toxin 1 and Shiga toxin 2. These bacteria can cause severe disease in humans including bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
NALT Core
Broader Concept:
enterovirulent Escherichia coli group
Narrower Concepts:
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
  • Shiga toxigenic E. coli
  • STEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
  • verotoxin-producing E. coli
  • Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • verotoxigenic Escherichia coli
  • Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli
  • VTEC (verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • STEC/VTEC (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • verotoxigenic E. coli
  • Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/187477
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