2009 United Kingdom E. coli outbreak

The 2009 E. coli outbreak in the United Kingdom was an outbreak of E. coli which was discovered in a farm in Surrey. On 12 September 2009, the HPA ordered Godstone Farm as 36 people had been suffering from a gastrointestinal illness which have occurred following visits to the animal farm.

By 25 September 2009, 4 farms had closed because of cases linked to Godstone Farm with 82 cases of the bacteria, including nine children who were hospitalised. Five children treated in one of the London hospitals were described as being in a stable condition, as were all those being treated in other hospitals. None were described as seriously ill.

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Escherichia coli

Outbreaks	1993 Jack in the Box 1996 Odwalla 2000 Walkerton 2005 South Wales (O157) 2006 North American (spinach; O157:H7) 2006 North American (multiple; O157:H7) 2009 United Kingdom 2011 Germany (O104:H4) 2015 United States

Genes	CPS operon DnaG Fis FNR regulon OmpT RecBCD RpoE RpoF RpoN RpoS

Strains	Enterohemorrhagic Enteroinvasive Enterotoxigenic O104:H21 O104:H4 O121 O157:H7 Verotoxin-producing

Related	Aerobactin Coliform index Long-term evolution experiment EcoCyc Enteroaggregative Molecular biology Hok/sok system LacUV5 Min System Pathogenic EnvZ/OmpR Rho factor T4 rII system Theodor Escherich

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