Attaching and effacing lesions in the large intestine of an eight‐month‐old heifer associated with <i>Escherichia coli</i> 026 infection in a group of animals with dysentery

Abstract

Escherichia coli O26:K60, with genetic attributes consistent with a potentially human enterohaemorrhagic E. coli was isolated from the faeces of an eight-month-old heifer with dysentery. Attaching and effacing lesions were identified in the colon of a similarly affected heifer examined postmortem, and shown to be associated with E. coli O26 by specific immunolabelling.