Reduced etiological role for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in cases of diarrhea in Brazilian infants

Rodrigues, J.
Thomazini, C. M.
Morelli, A.
de Batista, GCM

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Publication date

January 2004

DOI

10.1128/JCM.42.1.398-400.2004

Publisher

Amer Soc Microbiology

Journal

0095-1137

Abstract

Previously common in Brazil, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains of serogroups O55, O111, and O119 are now rare, while enteroadherent strains other than EPEC, belonging to serogroups such as O125, were prevalent among 126 diarrheic infants less than 1 year old who were surveyed. None of these strains had the EPEC bundle-forming pilus (bkA) gene