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Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli consists of strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that when infecting humans have been linked with the severe complication hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). They are known by a number of names including enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) shiga-like toxin-producing E. coli (STEC or SLTEC) hemolytic uremic syndrome–associated enterohemorrhagic E. coli (HUSEC) and verocytotoxin- or verotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC).All these E.
