Contaminated Stream Water as Source for Escherichia coli O157 Illness in Children.

ABSTRACT: In May 2016, an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 infections occurred among children who had played in a stream flowing through a park. Analysis of E. coli isolates from the patients, stream water, and deer and coyote scat showed that feces from deer were the most likely source of contamination.

SUBMITTER: Probert WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512484 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature