Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli in Man and Farm Animals

Verotoxin production among porcine strains of Escherichia coli and its association with oedema disease

“…Strains of the 0139:K82 serotype are nonenterotoxigenic and are associated with oedema disease but not diarrhoea in weaned pigs (Sojka, 1973). They predominated in oedema disease in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s (Sojka et al, 1960;Sojka, 1965), but in our survey all cases of clinical oedema disease in the UK between 1978 and 1985 were associated with 0141 : K85 strains.…”

The Role of Alpha Haemolysin in the Virulence of Escherichia Coli for Mice

“…Although many strains of E. coli that cause enteric disease in pigs are haemolytic (Sojka, 1973), the role of a haemolysin in E. coli infections has not been clarified. In enterotoxic colibacillosis, the enteropathogen is normally confined to the alimentary tract (Smith and Jones, 1963), in which a haemolysin is unlikely to be active.…”

Polymorphism and inheritance of swine small intestinal receptors mediating adhesion of three serological variants of Escherichia coli‐producing K88 pilus antigen

“…Among those pathogens which affect neonatal pigs and also adhere to the brush borders in vitro are enteropathogenic E. coli-producing adhesion antigens designated as K88 (0rskov et al 1961;0rskov etal. 1964;Smith & Linggood 1971;Jones & Rutter 1972;Sojka 1973), 987P Nagy etal. 1977;Isaacson et al 1978), K99 (Smith & Linggood 1972;Moon et al 1977;Morris et al 1977;Isaacson et al 1978), and F41 pilus antigens (Morris et al 1982(Morris et al , 1983a.…”