Emerging enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains?

Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Oct;10(10):1851-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1010.031093.

Abstract

Escherichia coli strains of nonenteropathogenic serogroups carrying eae but lacking the enteropathogenic E. coli adherence factor plasmid and Shiga toxin DNA probe sequences were isolated from patients (children, adults, and AIDS patients) with and without diarrhea in Brazil. Although diverse in phenotype and genotype, some strains are potentially diarrheagenic.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / microbiology
  • Adhesins, Bacterial
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Bacterial Adhesion / genetics
  • Brazil / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology
  • DNA, Bacterial / analysis
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Diarrhea / microbiology*
  • Escherichia coli / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / pathogenicity*
  • Escherichia coli / physiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / epidemiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Phenotype
  • Serotyping
  • Shiga Toxin / genetics
  • Socioeconomic Factors

Substances

  • Adhesins, Bacterial
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • eaeA protein, E coli
  • Shiga Toxin