Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli with STh and STp genotypes is associated with diarrhea both in children in areas of endemicity and in travelers.

doi:10.1128/JCM.00790-06

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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli with STh and STp genotypes is associated with diarrhea both in children in areas of endemicity and in travelers.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2006

Bölin Ingrid, Wiklund Gudrun, Qadri Firdausi, Torres Olga, Bourgeois A Louis, Savarino Stephen, Svennerholm Ann-Mari

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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea among children in developing countries and in travelers to areas of ETEC endemicity. ETEC strains isolated from humans may produce a heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) and two types of the heat-stable enterotoxin STa, called STh and STp, encoded by the estA gene. Two commonly used assay methods for the detection of STa, the infant mouse assay or...

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Adult
Bacterial Toxins
Child
Diarrhea
Enterotoxins
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Genotype
Humans
Travel

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PMID: 16943355
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00790-06
PMCID: PMC1698338

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