title: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli--an overview.
abstract: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is an important cause of traveler's diarrhea and diarrheal illnesses in children in the developing world. In this presentation we will focus on the main virulence attributes of this pathogenic category of E. coli, and discuss the evolution of studies conducted in our laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Rua Botucatu 862, 3o andar, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brasil. becguth@ecb.epm.br
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Guth
mesh_terms: D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D006801:Humans; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D004768:Enterotoxins