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Pathotypes of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in children attending a tertiary care hospital in South India.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Oct 2010
Rajendran Priya, Ajjampur Sitara Swarna Rao, Chidambaram Divya, Chandrabose Gunasekaran, Thangaraj Bhuvaneswari, Sarkar Rajiv, Samuel Prasanna, Rajan Deva Prasanna, Kang Gagandeep
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The prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) in children under 5 years was studied in children with diarrhea and controls in South India. Four polymerase chain reaction (PCR) "schemes" were used to detect genes of the 6 pathotypes of DEC. In 394 children with diarrhea, 203 (52%) DEC infections were found. Among the 198 controls, 126 (63%) DEC infections were found. Enteroaggregative E. coli was the most...
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