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We identified the mucus-activatable Shiga toxin genotype stx2d in the most common hemolytic uremic syndrome-associated Escherichia coli serotype, O157:H7. stx2d was detected in a strain isolated from a 2-year-old boy with bloody diarrhea in Spain, and whole-genome sequencing was used to confirm and fully characterize the strain.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5547771PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.170570DOI Listing

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