Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae diarrhea, Bangladesh, 2004.
Flooding in Dhaka in July 2004 caused epidemics of diarrhea. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was almost as prevalent as Vibrio cholerae O1 in diarrheal stools. ETEC that produced heat-stable enterotoxin alone was most prevalent, and 78% of strains had colonization factors. Like V. cholerae O1, ETEC can cause epidemic diarrhea.
Qadri
Firdausi
F
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. fqadri@icddrb.org
Khan
Ashraful I
AI
Faruque
Abu Syed G
AS
Begum
Yasmin Ara
YA
Chowdhury
Fahima
F
Nair
Gopinath B
GB
Salam
Mohammed A
MA
Sack
David A
DA
Svennerholm
Ann-Mari
AM
D000293:Adolescent; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002771:Cholera / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D004190:Disasters; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014871:Water Microbiology