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Characterization of enteropathogenic and enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolated from diarrheal outbreaks
Jun Yatsuyanagi1, Shioko Saito, Hiroyasu Sato
1Akita Prefectural Institute of Public Health, 6-6 Sensyu kubota-machi, Akita 010-0874, Japan. jyatsu@spica.freemail.ne.jp
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
Virulence characteristics of diarrheal outbreak-associated Escherichia coli O55:NM, O126:NM, and O111:NM were examined. The E. coli O55:NM strains were atypical enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), while the E. coli O126:NM and O111:NM strains should be classified as enteroaggregative E. coli (EAggEC). The contributions of EPEC and EAggEC to the human disease burden in Japan might be significantly greater than is currently appreciated.