The Scottish Escherichia coli O157 Reference Laboratory (SERL) has reported the isolation of a sorbitol-fermenting verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) O157 strain from a 5 year old child with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) (1). No source of infection has yet been identified.
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Lesley J. Allison (2002) studied this question.