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SUBMITTER: Kim JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5571361 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Jin Seok JS Park Jungsun J Shin Eunkyung E Kim Soojin S Oh Sung Suck SS Yang Hyo-Jin HJ Kim Dae-Won DW Oh Kyung-Hwan KH Kim Yonghoon Y Kim Min M Kwon Mun Ju MJ Na Kyoungin K Lee Jin J Cho En-Hi EH Kang Byung-Hak BH Kwak Hyo-Sun HS Seong Won Keun WK Kim Junyoung J
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20170824 9
We investigated an outbreak of enterotoxigenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> (ETEC) O159:H20 associated with the consumption of a tossed-noodle dish in a high school in 2016. Thirty-three ETEC strains isolated from clinical and food samples were genetically indistinguishable. The outbreak strains were resistant to third-generation cephalosporins and harbored a <i>bla</i><sub>CTX-M-15</sub> gene on a 97-kb self-transferable IncK plasmid. This is the first outbreak caused by CTX-M-15-producing ETEC stra ...[more]