TABLE 4.
Occurrence of hemorrhagic pneumonia (HP)-associated Escherichia coli pulsotypes within a reference pulsed-field gel electrophoresis library
| Pulsotype | HP isolate(s) from this report (new and published) | Matching isolates from private PFGE profile library |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source | No. of isolates from specimen type |
Yr(s), range | Location | |||||
| Feces | Urine | Blood | Other | |||||
| 0064 | 0.0205,a JJ2690,b JJ2691b | Dog | 2 | 1 | Lung, 2c | 2005–2013 | NY, OH (USA) | |
| Cat | 1 | 1998 | MN (USA) | |||||
| Human | 3 | 7d | 1 | 1985–2017 | MN, OH, TX, and WA (USA) | |||
| 0691 | 7.3596,e 8.0201e | Human | 3d | 1997–2018 | Japan; MN (USA) | |||
| 1263 | 6.136–6.138,f 6.1679–6.1682f | Cat | Kidney, 1g; spleen, 1g; uterus, 1g | 1996 | FL (USA) | |||
| 1424 | 1.2887 | Human | 1 | 1998 | MI (USA) | |||
| Food | Ground turkey, 1 | 2001 | IN (USA) | |||||
a
From a unique case (3).
b
Both from present case 1 (lung, liver).
c
One dog (from same vendor that provided the canine host for HP isolate 0.0205) had hemorrhagic pneumonia. The other dog lacked clinical data.
d
From males and females.
e
Both from the same case (lung, colon) (7).
f
All from the same outbreak (multiple cats at one facility) (5).
g
Possibly from the same case.