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A review of an emerging enteric pathogen: enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2006
Huang David B, Mohanty Alakananda, DuPont Herbert L, Okhuysen Pablo C, Chiang Tom
Abstract excerpt
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an increasingly recognized enteric pathogen. It is a cause of both acute and persistent diarrhoea among children, adults and HIV-infected persons, in both developing and developed countries. In challenge studies, EAEC has caused diarrhoeal illness with the ingestion of 10(10) c.f.u. Outbreaks of diarrhoeal illness due to EAEC have been reported, and linked to the...
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