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Contaminated Stream Water as Source for Escherichia coli O157 Illness in Children.


ABSTRACT: In May 2016, an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infections occurred among children who had played in a stream flowing through a park. Analysis of E. coli isolates from the patients, stream water, and deer and coyote scat showed that feces from deer were the most likely source of contamination.

SUBMITTER: Probert WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512484 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Contaminated Stream Water as Source for Escherichia coli O157 Illness in Children.

Probert William S WS   Miller Glen M GM   Ledin Katya E KE  

Emerging infectious diseases 20170701 7


In May 2016, an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infections occurred among children who had played in a stream flowing through a park. Analysis of E. coli isolates from the patients, stream water, and deer and coyote scat showed that feces from deer were the most likely source of contamination. ...[more]

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