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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Phenotyping of E. coli serotypes associated to oedema disease Sigbrit Mattsson and Per Wallgren* Address: National Veterinary Institute, SVA 751 89 Uppsala, Sweden Email: Sigbrit Mattsson - Sigbrit.Mattsson@sva.se; Per Wallgren* - Per.Wallgren@sva.se * Corresponding author Published: 2 June 2008 Received: 28 December 2007 Accepted: 2 June 2008 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:13 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-13 This article is available from: /content/50/1/13 © 2008 Mattsson and Wallgren; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Oedema disease is a severe disease, mainly affecting recently weaned pigs. It is caused by E. coli strains that express fimbriae F18 and produce verotoxin 2e, mainly belonging to serotype O138, O139 or O141. The aim of this study was to compare E. coli isolates within these serotypes with respect to diversity. Methods: Faecal E. coli strains belonging to serotypes O138, O139 and O141 isolated during the period 1994–1998 from Swedish pigs aged less than 12 weeks were compared using a biochemical fingerprinting system. Aiming to compare the results obtained over time, also strains isolated