Diarrhea, bacteremia and multiorgan dysfunction due to an extraintestinal pathogenicEscherichia colistrain with enteropathogenicE. coligenes

• DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftv076
• Publication Date: 2015-09-27T00:47:58Z
• Authors: Robert Kessler; Shahista Nisa; Tracy H. Hazen; Amy Horneman; Anthony Amoroso; David A. Rasko; Michael S. Donnen...
• Keywords: DNA, Bacterial; Diarrhea; Male; 0303 health sciences; Short Communication; Multiple Organ Failure; Molecular Sequence Data; Bacteremia; HIV Infections; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Middle Aged; 3. Good health; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; 03 medical and health sciences; Genes, Bacterial; Humans; Escherichia coli Infections; Genome, Bacterial

A 55-year-old man with well-controlled HIV had severe diarrhea for 3 weeks and developed multiorgan dysfunction and bacteremia due to Escherichia coli. The genome of the patient's isolate had features characteristic of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli and genes distantly related to those defining enteropathogenic E. coli.