The Health Protection Agency's Greater Manchester Health Protection Unit wants to test any children at the Brooklands Nursery, Bryn, who have experienced diarrhoea over the past 10 days.
It is thought that the child picked up the bug while on holiday before returning to nursery.
Dr Lorraine Lighton, a consultant in communicable disease control at the unit, said: "Having discovered that a child who had mild diarrhoeal illness whilst in the nursery has E. coli O157 we have taken a precautionary approach by testing children who have experienced symptoms of diarrhoea at any time over the past 10 days."
She added that there was "no suggestion that the source of infection is in the nursery".
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