| shiga toxin-producing and attaching and effacing escherichia coli in cats and dogs in a high hemolytic uremic syndrome incidence region in argentina. | shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli (stec), responsible for the hemolytic uremic syndrome, is an endemic pathogen in argentina. we studied the prevalence of stec in fecal samples from cats and dogs of buenos aires city and suburbs. cultures were used for screening stx1/stx2 and rfbo157 by multiplex pcr. all e. coli-positive colonies for these genes were further characterized for the eae gene and for serotypes. in dogs, 17 (3.7%), 19 (4.2%) and 34 (7.5%) of samples were positive for stx2, stx1 ... | 2007 | 17328115 |