[Enteroadherent Escherichia coli exhibiting localized pattern of adherence among infants with diarrhoea in Brazil--incidence and prevalence of serotypes].
The incidence of enteroadherent Escheridhia coli exhibiting localized adherence to HeLa cells was investigated using the EAF probe (Nataro et al., J. Infect. Dis., 152:560-563, 1985) among 126 infants below 3 years of age along with 126 age-matched healthy controls in Brazil. The EAF probe proved to be sensitive and specific in detection of enteroadherent E. coli. EAF-probe positive E. coli was isolated from 23.0% of the infants with acute diarrhoea while the corresponding rate of isolation from healthy controls was 11.9%. EAF-probe positive E. coli strains belonging to the classical enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) serogroups were more often associated with diarrheal cases (18.3%) than with strains isolated from control healthy infants (5.6%). The predominant EAF-probe positive E. coli serotypes were O55:H-, O111:H2 and O119:H6. These serotypes, especially O111:H2, were mainly isolated from cases with diarrhoea suggesting a strong causal association. Among the EAF positive non-EPEC serotypes, the most prevalent serotype was O88:H25 and this represents a, hitherto, unrecognized diarrheagenic E. coli serotype.
Tsukamoto
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Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health.
Kimoto
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Magalhaes
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Takeda
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D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D001938:Brazil; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D006367:HeLa Cells / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization / Q000379:methods; D012703:Serotyping