Intimin subtyping of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from children with and without diarrhea: a possible temporal shift in the distribution of intimin alleles.
Intimins of atypical EPEC strains from children with and without diarrhea were genotyped. κ was not found and β was the most common. η- and ζ-alleles prevailed in strains from children without diarrhea and ι-allele among children older than 13 months. ε-allele emerged in 2006 and was the most common in 2007.
Laboratório de Diagnóstico Genético de Doenças Infecciosas, Departamento de Propedêutica Complementar, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Professor Alfredo Balena 190, sala 423, 30130-100, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Roger T
RT
Franco
Lizandra D R
LD
Araújo
Francisco J
FJ
Penna
Paula P
PP
Magalhães
Edilberto N
EN
Mendes
D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D000483:Alleles; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D054308:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male
D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C073819:eaeA protein, E coli