Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

JP Nataro - Emerging infections 6, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The first reported outbreak of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) diarrhea occurred
in Serbia, where 19 newborns in a nursery developed watery diarrhea. Recently, EAEC has
been implicated as an important agent of diarrhea in industrialized countries as well. In a
large prospective study of adults and children with diarrhea in the United Kingdom,
researchers found that EAEC was strongly associated with diarrheal illness and was the
second most commonly implicated bacterial pathogen after Campylobacter. Importantly, in …

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Heat-Stable Enterotoxin Is Not Restricted to Enteroaggregative E. coli

SJ Savarino, A McVeigh, J Watson… - Journal of infectious …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) have been implicated as diarrheal
pathogens in several settings. Some EAggEC produce a distinct heat-stable enterotoxin
named EASTl. The distribution and prevalence of the EAST1 gene in selected groups of
bacterial enteropathogens were determined by colony hybridization. One hundred percent
of75 0157: H7 enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), 41% of 227 EAggEC, 41% of 149
enterotoxigenic E. coli, 22% of 65 enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), and 38% of 47 E. coli …