Surveillance of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Europe

A Ammon; Fellows of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), Members of the National Public Health Institutes and Laboratories

doi:10.2807/esm.02.12.00133-en

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Surveillance of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Europe
A Ammon¹ , Fellows of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), Members of the National Public Health Institutes and Laboratories ²
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Affiliations: ¹ Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany ² Fellows of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) and Members of the National Public Health Institutes and Laboratories are listed at the end of the article.

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Citation style for this article: Ammon A, Fellows of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), Members of the National Public Health Institutes and Laboratories . Surveillance of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Europe. Euro Surveill. 1997;2(12):pii=133. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.02.12.00133-en

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Abstract

Since they were first described, Escherichia coliO157: H7 and other related enterohaemorrhagic E. coli(EHEC) have become known as a major infectious cause of bloody diarrhoea. These E. coliproduce one or more shiga-toxins (stx) or Vero cytotoxins. Strictl