[Epidemic of gastroenteritis in Noumea (New Caledonia) caused by an enterotoxinogenic strain of Escherichia coli (0l26:B16) believed to be enteropathogenic].
A strain of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli 0126:B16 has been isolated in fifteen children and one adult during a severe outbreak. One infant is dead. The strain produced heat-stable enterotoxin, attach to rabbit enterocytes but did not have colonization factor antigen CFA/I or CFA/II. Its hemagglutination type was the same that the E. coli H10407, CFA/I+. It presented a resistance at eight antibiotics and, with the loss of enterotoxigenicity, there was a loss of resistance at ampicillin and of the capacity to attach to enterocytes.
D000328:Adult; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000494:pharmacology; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000032:analysis*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009510:New Caledonia; D010403:Penicillin Resistance; D012703:Serotyping
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004768:Enterotoxins; D000667:Ampicillin
Epidémie de gastroentérites à Nouméa (Nouvelle-Calédonie) due à une souche de "Escherichia coli" entérotoxinogène 0126:B16 réputée etre entéropathogène.