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Alignment-free design of highly discriminatory diagnostic primer sets for Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strains.
PLoS One
August 2012
Information and Computational Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Background: An Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany in summer 2011 caused 53 deaths, over 4000 individual infections across Europe, and considerable economic, social and political impact. This outbreak was the first in a position to exploit rapid, benchtop high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and crowdsourced data analysis early in its investigation, establishing a new paradigm for rapid response to disease threats. We describe a novel strategy for design of diagnostic PCR primers that exploited this rapid draft bacterial genome sequencing to distinguish between E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConsensus report: E. coli O104:H4 (HUSEC041) and the potential threat to European water supplies.
Int J Hyg Environ Health
November 2011
Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, University of Bonn, Germany.
Among the 3rd Seminar for PhD students working on Water and Health which was held in Cannes on 27–29 June 2011, experts from a number of universities and research institutes took the opportunity to discuss the emergence of Escherichia coli O104:H4 in Europe. Especially, possible threats for European water suppliers were considered. The consensus is summarized in this report.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacterisation of the Escherichia coli strain associated with an outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Germany, 2011: a microbiological study.
Lancet Infect Dis
September 2011
Institute for Hygiene and the National Consulting Laboratory for Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Background: In an ongoing outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea caused by a virulent Escherichia coli strain O104:H4 in Germany (with some cases elsewhere in Europe and North America), 810 cases of the syndrome and 39 deaths have occurred since the beginning of May, 2011. We analysed virulence profiles and relevant phenotypes of outbreak isolates recovered in our laboratory.
Methods: We analysed stool samples from 80 patients that had been submitted to the National Consulting Laboratory for Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome in Münster, Germany, between May 23 and June 2, 2011.
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