肠出血性大肠杆菌O_(157)是由于食用了被污染的汉堡牛肉排引起血性腹泻,后于1982年在美国首次被确定为人类病原体。此后,在世界的许多地区(其中包括北美洲的加拿大,美国,西欧的德国、意大利、英国、澳大利亚,亚洲的日本和南部非洲)报告了一些散在感染和爆发。 Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O_ (157) was the first to be identified as a human pathogen in the United States in 1982 due to bloody diarrhea caused by the consumption of contaminated hamburger steak. Since then, some casual infections and outbreaks have been reported in many parts of the world, including North America, Canada, the United States, Western Europe, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and Japan and Southern Africa.