Journal article
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Diarrheal Disease in Mexican Children
The Journal of infectious diseases, Vol.135(3), pp.482-485
03/1977
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/135.3.482
PMID: 321705
Abstract
Enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli were isolated from eight (16%) of 50 Mexican children admitted to the hospital with diarrhea and from one of 50 children hospitalized for nonenteric disorders. All of the toxigenic strains tested elaborated a heat-labile enterotoxin, and in seven of nine patients no E. coli capable of concomitant production of heat-stable enterotoxin were found. None of the strains of E. coli with classical enteropathogenic serotypes isolated from nine patients with diarrhea produced either heat-labile or heat-stable enterotoxin. Although the results of this study strongly suggest that enterotoxigenic strains of E. coli are probably responsible for a significant number of cases of diarrhea in an indigenous Mexican pediatric population, further proof will require demonstration of in vivo production of enterotoxin and/or antitoxin.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Diarrheal Disease in Mexican Children
- Creators
- Sam T. Donta - Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa and Veterans Administration Hospitals, Iowa City, Ames, Iowa, Mexico City, MexicoRobert B. Wallace - University of IowaShannon C. Whipp - Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa and Veterans Administration Hospitals, Iowa City, Ames, Iowa, Mexico City, MexicoJorge Olarte - Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa and Veterans Administration Hospitals, Iowa City, Ames, Iowa, Mexico City, Mexico
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of infectious diseases, Vol.135(3), pp.482-485
- DOI
- 10.1093/infdis/135.3.482
- PMID
- 321705
- NLM abbreviation
- J Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 0022-1899
- eISSN
- 1537-6613
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1977
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984363564902771
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