enteropathogenic escherichia coli
Enzootic Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection in Laboratory Rabbits
... (49). Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is the most impor- tant cause of diarrhea of extended duration (1, 21, ...E. coli, EPEC strain heterogeneity, the need for virulence ...
6
Association of Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli with Diarrhea and Related Mortality in Kittens
... ABSTRACT Diarrhea is responsible for the death of approximately 900,000 children per year worldwide. In children, typical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a common cause of diarrhea and is ...
17
Expression of the Bundle Forming Pilus by Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains of Heterologous Serotypes
... Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is the most im- portant bacterial cause of diarrheal disease in infants 0 to 6 months of age living in developing countries (11, 15, ...
6
Distribution of tccP in Clinical Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolates
... agents enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic ...E. coli (EHEC), the latter also being known as verocytotoxin-producing ...E. coli or Shiga toxin-pro- ducing ...
6
Characterization of Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Harboring the astA Gene That Were Associated with a Waterborne Outbreak of Diarrhea in Japan
... Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a major cause of infantile diarrhea, particularly in children ⬍2 years old (23), and is a cause of sporadic diarrhea, primarily in developed countries ...
7
Characterization of Monkey Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Human Typical and Atypical EPEC Serotype Isolates from Neotropical Nonhuman Primates
... Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) has been associated with infantile diarrhea and mortality in humans in developing ...E. coli is ...E. coli recovered from the feces of 56 New ...
10
A COMMUNITY EPIDEMIC OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI O126:B16:NM GASTROENTERITIS ASSOCIATED WITH ASYMPTOMATIC RESPIRATORY INFECTION
... O126:B16:NM GASTROENTERITIS ASSOCIATED WITH ASYMPTOMATIC A COMMUNITY EPIDEMIC OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI. Services[r] ...
14
Virulence Related Genes and Coenteropathogens Associated with Clinical Outcomes of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infections in Children from the Brazilian Semiarid Region: a Case Control Study of Diarrhea
... ABSTRACT Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a major cause of diarrhea in children from developing countries and presents high genetic ...E. coli (EAEC) coinfections were associated ...
12
EspC, an Autotransporter Protein Secreted by Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Causes Apoptosis and Necrosis through Caspase and Calpain Activation, Including Direct Procaspase 3 Cleavage
... ABSTRACT Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) has the ability to antagonize host apoptosis during infection through pro- motion and inhibition of effectors injected by the type III secretion ...
18
HeLa cell adherence and cytotoxin production by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from infants with diarrhea in Thailand
... Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli EPEC strains isolated from hospitalized infants with diarrhea in Thailand were examined for HeLa cell adherence and cytotoxin production.. Of 101 strain[r] ...
5
Bacterial Chromatin Structural Proteins Regulate the Bimodal Expression of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement (LEE) Pathogenicity Island in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
... In enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), the interplay between H-NS (a nucleoid structuring protein) and Ler (an H-NS paralog) is required for bi- modal LEE5 and LEE1 expression, leading to the ...
16
Dynamics of the Type III Secretion System Activity of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
... including enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, to trans- locate effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells (1, ...
9
Colonization of neonates in a nursery ward with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and correlation to the clinical histories of the children
... Variable numbers of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli serotype 0111:HNT strains possessing the gene coding for the enteroadherence factor EAF were found in stool samples from 13 of the n[r] ...
5
Peyer's patch lymphoid follicle epithelial adherence of a rabbit enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (strain RDEC 1) Role of plasmid mediated pili in initial adherence
... lymphoid follicle adherence of the RDEC-1 strain with that of a Shigella flexneri (ShD15) that contained the 85 X 10(6) D plasmid and expressed the RDEC-1 pili, a control E. coli, and a control S. flexneri ...
7
Characterization of Virulence Factors in Enteroaggregative and Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Children with Diarrhea
... of Escherichia coli and virulence markers: DNA extrac- tion was obtained from ...E. coli cultures grown during the night they were resuspended in sterile distilled deionized water and boiled for 5 to ...
8
IN-VITRO RESPONSE OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI TO VARIOUS ANTIBIOTICS
... The poorest activity in the tetracycline group occtmrred with the 36 strains of sero- type 0127:B8 (Fig. Almost half of all the strains were nesistamit to these drugs. Chior-.. aniI)iien[r] ...
8
The Ruler Protein EscP of the Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III Secretion System Is Involved in Calcium Sensing and Secretion Hierarchy Regulation by Interacting with the Gatekeeper Protein SepL
... membrane of the host cell. To ensure that translocation of the effector proteins into the host cells is efficient and timely, the secretion process is tightly regulated and consists of three groups of secreted substrates ...
15
Association of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Locus cdtB with Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Acute Diarrhea in Calcutta, India
... Luria-Bertani broth (Difco, Detroit, Mich.) were directly tested for the presence of the cdtB gene in a standard PCR assay. The primer pair used in this study was based on the cdt nucleotide sequence of E. coli ...
5
Rotavirus and hemolytic enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in weanling diarrhea of pigs
... coli-7 at the onset of rotavirus diarrhea and in experiment 6C in which 4-week-old colostrum-deprived pigs were infected with rotavirus and 1 day later with hemolytic E.. As mentioned ab[r] ...
9
Role of the eaeA gene in experimental enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection
... Therefore, to investigate the role of the eaeA gene in the pathogenesis of EPEC infection, we conducted a volunteer study using isogenic wild-type and eaeA deletion mutant strains... Met[r] ...
7