ドイツの電脳冊子のSPIEGEL:ONLINEの病原性大腸菌(EHEC)の記事, Intestinal germ: New strain raises EHEC infections

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Intestinal germ: New strain raises EHEC infections
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Science - 02/06/2011
Whatb makes the EHEC pathogens so agressive? According to the World Health Organization, a new, never-before-discovered strain of E: coli is responsible for numerous infections.

What makes the Ehec pathogens so aggressive? According to the World Health Organisation, a new, never-before-discovered strain of E. coli is responsible for numerous infections.

 For privacy reasons, your IP address will be saved only if you are a registered and logged-in Facebook users. If you want to know more about privacy, click on the i. London - The cause for the dramatic Ehec disease has not been identified. But the World Health Organization now reports new details of the dangerous bacterium. The preliminary genetic studies had shown that the strain is a mutated form of two Escherichia coli (E. coli), said the WHO expert on food safety, Hilde Kruse. Next she said, such a strain was never isolated from patients. The new strain, on characteristics that made him produce more toxins.

DISPLAY The life-threatening intestinal pathogens has been requested in Hamburg, another fatality. On the night of Thursday was an elderly woman died, said Rolf steel, medical director of the 3rd Medical Clinic of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Thus the number of deaths in Hamburg to three and increased nationwide to 17 or more.
From Britain, seven are reported infected. Three of the infected people had been detained, according to the British health authority in Germany, acting on the other hand, there are German citizens.
The most recent outbreak, the medical Ehec still many mysteries, the pathogen is particularly aggressive and prepares himself experienced doctors worried. "We have observed unexpected disease processes, we have never met before," said the director of the Medical Clinic I at the site of the Lübeck University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Hendrik Lehnert.
Spanish cucumbers fall out as the causative agent
Meanwhile, experts have confirmed that in all four tested in Hamburg, not the cucumber seeds have been discovered, which had been found in patients. A spokeswoman for the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin, said all four suspects cucumbers in Hamburg Ehec pathogen had been identified - but O104 just not the type of pathogen that is responsible for the current disease outbreak: "None of the four samples showed the serotype O104: H4 the pathogen that was isolated from stool samples of patients. "
"The source of persistent infections is not yet determined," said the president of the Federal Institute, Andreas Hensel. "It is still necessary to clarify at what point is made in the food chain exposure to germs."
Spain asks for damages

ANZEIGEDie Hamburger Health Authority had announced last Thursday, four cucumbers - three of them from Spain - Ehec pathogens were found. Since Tuesday, it was clear that it refers to two of the Spanish cucumber is not the type O104.
Spain would "demand in Europe before the relevant authorities compensation for the damage," Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Thursday in Spanish radio.
The European Commission lifted the warning on Spanish cucumbers now. The Federal Ministry for Consumers, however, defended the warning of Spanish cucumbers. The Hamburg authorities have acted within existing rules, ministry spokesman Holger Eichele said in Berlin.
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