Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli: a cause of bacteremia in patients with AIDS.
A strain of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli was isolated from the blood of a patient with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease on repeated occasions, associated with severe diarrheal illness. The isolate was killed in vitro by control sera but not by sera collected from the patient before or after his bacterial illnesses.
Bessesen
M T
MT
Disease Control Service, Denver Health and Hospitals, Colorado 80204.
Wang
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Echeverria
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Blaser
M J
MJ
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D004064:Digestive System / Q000382:microbiology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male