| Literature DB >> 14605183 |
Mritunjay Pandey1, Asis Khan, Suresh C Das, Bhaswati Sarkar, Soumen Kahali, Subhra Chakraborty, Santanu Chattopadhyay, Shinji Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Takeda, G Balakrish Nair, T Ramamurthy.
Abstract
Among Escherichia coli strains isolated from stool specimens from patients with acute diarrhea, 1.4% were found to harbor cdtB by use of enrichment cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) PCR. These isolates were identified as being enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). In a retrospective study using a probe hybridization assay, 6 of 138 EPEC strains were found to harbor the cdtB locus. cdtB-positive isolates mostly belong to the O86a and O127a serogroups, with the former being associated with higher expression of CDT. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles showed that the EPEC strains harboring cdtB strains are genetically diverse.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14605183 PMCID: PMC262502 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.5277-5281.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948