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Are Non-lactose fermenting Escherichia coli important diarrhoeal pathogens in children and adults?
2023-01-25
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<h4>Introduction: </h4> Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) are responsible for about 30–40% of acute diarrhoea episodes in developing countries. Up to 10% of isolates of E. coli from stool specimens have been reported to be non-lactose fermenting (NLF E. coli). There is scarcity of literature available regarding the pathogenicity of NLF E. coli causing infectious diarrhoea. <h4>Aim:</h4> We aimed to elucidate th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 897ce032-0ecd-5530-b938-77796b1862ae
- DOI
- 10.1099/acmi.0.000459.v2
