Figure 1.
Distribution of sequence types (STs) of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains circulating at the livestock-beef-environment-human interface, in South America. In Brazil, for livestock origin, ST25, ST642, ST1725, ST2522, and ST7100 were isolated from sheep feces, whereas ST223 was isolated from bovine, and ST2491 was isolated from pig feces [21,39,52,53,54,55].