Intestinal Carriage of Two Distinct stx2f-Carrying Escherichia coli Strains by a Child with Uncomplicated Diarrhea - Archive ouverte HAL
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Intestinal Carriage of Two Distinct stx2f-Carrying Escherichia coli Strains by a Child with Uncomplicated Diarrhea

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Two distinct stx2f-carrying Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains, isolated from a child with uncomplicated diarrhea fifteen weeks apart, were characterized by combining short- and long-read sequencing to compare their genetic relatedness. One strain was characterized as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)/typical enteropathogenic E. coli (tEPEC) O63:H6 with a repertoire of virulence genes including stx2f, eae (α2-subtype), cdt, and bfpA. The other STEC with serotype O157:H16, reported for the first time as stx2f-carrying Escherichia coli in this study, possessed, in addition, eae (ε-subtype) and cdt, amongst other virulence-related genes. BLAST comparison showed that the stx2f-harboring prophage sequences of both strains were highly homologous (99.6% identity and 96.1% coverage). These results were corroborated by core Stx2f phage Multilocus Sequence Typing (cpMLST) as the stx2f-harboring prophages of both isolates clustered together when compared to those of 167 other human stx2f-carrying Escherichia coli. Overall, the stx2f-harboring prophages of the two distinct E. coli strains isolated from the present case were highly similar, suggesting that the stx2f-harboring phage might have been transferred from the STEC/tEPEC O63:H6 strain to the atypical EPEC (aEPEC) O157:H16 strain in the gut of the child.
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hal-04827433 , version 1 (09-12-2024)

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Florence Crombé, Angela H a M van Hoek, Heleen Nailis, Frédéric Auvray, Toon Janssen, et al.. Intestinal Carriage of Two Distinct stx2f-Carrying Escherichia coli Strains by a Child with Uncomplicated Diarrhea. Pathogens, 2024, 13 (11), pp.1002. ⟨10.3390/pathogens13111002⟩. ⟨hal-04827433⟩
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