Serological Cross-Reactions between Escherichia coli 0157 and Other Species of the Genus Escherichia

Authors

Eugene W. Rice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Evangeline G. Sowers, Centers for Disease Control
Clifford H. Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Michele E. Dunnigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Nancy A. Strockbine, Centers for Disease Control
Stephen C. Edberg, Yale University School of Medicine

Date of this Version

1992

Citation

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1992, p. 1315-1316

Abstract

The antigenic relatedness of Escherichia coli 0157 and four sorbitol-negative species of the genus Escherichia was examined. Isolates of Escherichia hermannii, E. fergusonii, E. vulneris, and E. blattae were tested in the tube agglutination assay by using polyclonal antisera and in the slide agglutination assay by using latex reagents. Only four isolates (17%) of E. hermannii exhibited serological cross-reactivity.