Comments on: Deadly E. coli Outbreak Sweeps Europe, Its Source Still a Mystery

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By: Georg

Georg — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:38:55 +0000

Today more direct evidence came in news about that bio sprout farm: Its now almost shure that the EHEC spread from there. Investigation now concentrates on the question how (from where) this bacterium (known since at lest 10 years) came to the farm.
Georg

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Today they said that 3 employees in that bio sprout farm were ill with some diarrhoe,
one at least with EHEC. Here we are :=(

By: Vogie

Vogie — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:00:23 +0000

From Spain??
http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/P/piratesmile/1082658118_Hdanceofthecucumber.jpg

By: paul

paul — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:58:20 +0000

heard it was sprouts

By: begem0t

begem0t — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:06:54 +0000

And another little update: they’ve identified the serotype as O104:H4, not H21 as previously announced http://www.rki.de/nn_217400/EN/Home/EHEC__O104__H4,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/EHEC_O104_H4.pdf

Its genome is sequenced now and there is an assembly publically available http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2011/06/ehec-genome-assembly/

By: Andrei Ștefănucă

Andrei Ștefănucă — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:36:06 +0000

Here is some information that might help:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1472-765x.2000.00711.x/full
“Escherichia coli O157:H7 ATCC 43895, E. coli O104:H21 MPHL 94–56815, Salmonella enteritidis ATCC 13076, Listeria monocytogenes Scott A and L. monocytogenes ATCC 19115 were obtained from the University of Idaho Department of Food Science and Toxicology culture collection. All cultures were maintained on trypticase soy agar (TSA) slants and transferred each month to maintain viability. Working cultures were obtained by inoculating a loopful of culture into 10 ml tryptic soy broth (TSB) and incubating at the optimal temperature for each strain for 18–24 h.”

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168160503001727
Lactoferrin in combination with monolaurin inhibited growth of E. coli O157:H7 but not E. coli O104:H21. While lactoferrin combined with nisin or monolaurin did not completely inhibit growth of the gram-negative bacteria, there was some growth inhibition.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jwiarLy3auUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA15&dq=O104:H21&ots=MKHXL-6boA&sig=hUZIxsmCgmE_HGgPsHoqWYHV2b0#v=onepage&q=O104%3AH21&f=false

also, wkipedia says: “In April 2009, a Michigan State University researcher announced he had developed a working vaccine for a strain of E. coli. Mahdi Saeed, professor of epidemiology and infectious disease in MSU’s colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Human Medicine, has applied for a patent for his discovery and has made contact with pharmaceutical companies for commercial production” I don’t know what strain but someone might want to call him. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli)

By: bitemark

bitemark — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:23:27 +0000

*Madagascar closes its ports

By: Bee

Bee — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:17:05 +0000

There’s good information on the website of the Robert-Koch Institut, though mostly in German. (Google translate will help.) http://www.rki.de/cln_151/nn_205760/DE/Home/Info-HUS.html