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Infection and Immunity, April 2000, p. 2356-2358, Vol. 68, No. 4
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 Causes More-Severe Systemic Disease in Suckling Piglets than in Colostrum-Deprived Neonatal Piglets

Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom,1,* Joachim F. L. Pohlenz,2 Harley W. Moon,3 and Alison D. O'Brien4

Enteric Diseases and Food Safety Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 50010-00701; Institute for Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany2; Department of Veterinary Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 500113; and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-47994

Received 7 September 1999/Returned for modification 13 October 1999/Accepted 29 December 1999

Our objective was to determine if suckling neonatal piglets are susceptible to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 disease. Surprisingly, EHEC O157:H7 caused more-rapid and more-severe neurological disease in suckling neonates than in those fed an artificial diet. Shiga toxin-negative O157:H7 did not cause neurological disease but colonized and caused attaching-and-effacing intestinal lesions.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: USDA, ARS, National Animal Disease Center, P.O. Box 70, Ames, IA 50010-0070. Phone: (515) 663-7376. Fax: (515) 663-7458. E-mail: enystrom{at}nadc.ars.usda.gov.

Infection and Immunity, April 2000, p. 2356-2358, Vol. 68, No. 4
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