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[Escherichia coli in acute diarrhea in a population of infants]
F Khemiri1, R Ben Aissa, L Slim
1Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique Et De Ses Filiales
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The incidence of Escherichia coli EPEC and ETEC had been studied on 555 infants from Tunis area. 193 of them do not present any diarrhea. Frequency of EPEC is 9.14% in infants with diarrhea and 3.10% in the group without diarrhea. Analysis of 87 Escherichia coli strains using genetic probes showed that 4 EPEC strains present effacing attachment factor (EAF) and one EPEC strain produce verotoxin. The frequency of ETEC isolated is 18.05%, the majority of them produced ST enterotoxin. Only colonization factor antigen I (CFAI) was found in ETEC strains.