Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli multilocus sequence types in Guatemala and Mexico.
The genetic backgrounds of 24 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains from Mexico and Guatemala expressing heat-stable toxin (ST) and coli surface antigen 6 (CS6) were analyzed. US travelers to these countries and resident children in Guatemala were infected by ETEC strains of sequence type 398, expressing STp and carrying genetically identical CS6 sequences.
Nicklasson
Matilda
M
Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Box 435, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. matilda.nicklasson@microbio.gu.se
Klena
John
J
Rodas
Claudia
C
Bourgeois
August Louis
AL
Torres
Olga
O
Svennerholm
Ann Mari
AM
Sjoling
Asa
A
D000328:Adult; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D002648:Child; D054307:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D006166:Guatemala / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D014195:Travel; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; C098406:CS6 antigen, E coli; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins