Coli is not particularly common, but when there is an infection in one member of a family, often more than one person is infected, and there is one particular strain called e-coli that can be very dangerous to immune-vulnerable people like small children, the elderly, or people with HIV, cancer, or people who have had organ transplants.
The dehydration that often ensues from the associated diarrhea is also a danger. Because our cats are carnivorous mammals, they can infect us or family members through contact with their feces.
This is especially true of cats that are allowed outdoors or cats that catch and eat mice and birds. Symptoms of E. But in children under five, a small number of E. Among the five known groups of diarrhoeagenic E. Canine ETEC were found to be different from those of other animals and humans by their serotypes, production of alpha-haemolysin and adhesive factors and by the production of uncharacterized types of enterotoxins by some ETEC.
STEC were occasionally isolated from faeces of healthy and diarrhoeic dogs but their role in canine diarrhoea is not yet well known. Very little is known on diarrhoegenic E.
The illness can be mild to severe. Young children are more likely to have severe problems with E. Animals can carry E. Animals can appear healthy and clean but can spread E. Symptoms usually occur 3 to 4 days after a person comes in contact with E. Illness can range from mild to severe and life-threatening. Most people get better within 5 to 7 days. Young children infected with E. If you develop any of the symptoms described above, contact your doctor and be sure to inform him or her of any recent contact that you have had with animals.
The best way to prevent getting E. Your doctor will request a stool sample to be tested if you are suspected to be infected with E.
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