High disease burden of diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli among rural Egyptian infants and young children.
The incidence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea among Egyptian children was 1.5 episodes per child per year and accounted for 66% of all first episodes of diarrhea after birth. The incidence increased from 1.7 episodes per child per year in the first 6 months of life to 2.3 in the second 6 months and declined thereafter.
Rao
Malla R
MR
Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. mr8u@nih.gov
Abu-Elyazeed
Remon
R
Savarino
Stephen J
SJ
Naficy
Abdollah B
AB
Wierzba
Thomas F
TF
Abdel-Messih
Ibrahim
I
Shaheen
Hind
H
Frenck
Robert W
RW
Svennerholm
Ann-Mari
AM
Clemens
John D
JD
D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012424:Rural Population
D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C034151:heat stable toxin (E coli); C027538:heat-labile enterotoxin, E coli