title: [Escherichia coli in acute diarrhea in a population of infants].
abstract: The incidence of Escherichia coli EPEC and ETEC had been studied on 555 infants from Tunis area. 193 of them do not present any diarrhea. Frequency of EPEC is 9.14% in infants with diarrhea and 3.10% in the group without diarrhea. Analysis of 87 Escherichia coli strains using genetic probes showed that 4 EPEC strains present effacing attachment factor (EAF) and one EPEC strain produce verotoxin. The frequency of ETEC isolated is 18.05%, the majority of them produced ST enterotoxin. Only colonization factor antigen I (CFAI) was found in ETEC strains.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khemiri
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ben Aissa
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Slim
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gueddana
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012703:Serotyping; D022622:Shiga Toxin 1; D014416:Tunisia
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004768:Enterotoxins; D022622:Shiga Toxin 1
vernacular_title: Escherichia coli dans les diarrhées aigues d'une population de nourrissons.