DISTRIBUTION OF COLONIZATION FACTOR ANTIGENS AMONG ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI STRAINS ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH DIARRHEA IN NEPAL, INDONESIA, PERU, AND THAILAND

Authors
NIRDNOY W SERICHANTALERGS O CRAVIOTO A LEBRON C WOLF M HOGE CW SVENNERHOLM AM TAYLOR DN ECHEVERRIA P
Citation
W. Nirdnoy et al., DISTRIBUTION OF COLONIZATION FACTOR ANTIGENS AMONG ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA-COLI STRAINS ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH DIARRHEA IN NEPAL, INDONESIA, PERU, AND THAILAND, Journal of clinical microbiology, 35(2), 1997, pp. 527-530
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
35
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
527 - 530
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1997)35:2<527:DOCFAA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Samples (1,318) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coil (ETEC) isolated in 1994-1995 from children with diarrhea from Nepal, Indonesia, Peru, an d Thailand were examined for colonization factor antigen (CFA) and col i surface (CS) antigens. Fifty-five percent of 361 heat-labile and hea t-stable (LT-ST), 14% of 620 LT-only, and 18% of 337 ST-only ETEC had CFA/CS antigens, LT-ST ETEC strains were predominantly in the CFA II g roup, and ST only strains were in the CFA IV group. Additional studies are needed to identify ETEC strains that do not have CFA/CS antigens.