One Health-One City; the extent of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli in Cape Town

The estimated global burden of STEC (Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli) is 2,481,511 illnesses, 269 deaths, and 26,827 DALYs with 48% of these being foodborne. This thesis provides information on STEC diagnostic strategy, undetected STEC in a tertiary referral hospital in Cape Town, and the virulence and antimicrobial resistance properties of tellurite resistant diarrheic E. coli isolated on CHROMagar(TM)STEC (CHROMagar Microbiology, Paris, France). Deploying the One - Health surveillance approach to study selected diarrheic bacterial pathogens in an informal settlement setting, this study sheds light on the extent of bacterial foodborne pathogens in human and non-human sources.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Medical Microbiology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Kalule, John Bosco

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Nicol, Mark P
• Keddy, Karen H

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26938

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/26938