Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and life threatening chronic diarrhoea.

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and life threatening chronic diarrhoea.

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infection is not generally thought to cause severe diarrhoea after the neonatal period. Patients admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children over the three years (1984-7) with diarrhoea and EPEC infection were reviewed. Clinical details, features of small intestinal mucosa, and treatment were recorded in those who developed chronic diarrhoea with f...

Role of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in childhood diarrhoea in Norway

Emerging Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains?

Escherichia coli strains of nonenteropathogenic serogroups carrying eae but lacking the enteropathogenic E. coli adherence factor plasmid and Shiga toxin DNA probe sequences were isolated from patients (children, adults, and AIDS patients) with and without diarrhea in Brazil. Although diverse in phenotype and genotype, some strains are potentially diarrheagenic.

Detection & characterization of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) & enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in poultry birds with diarrhoea

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Limited information is available on shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in animals and birds from India. An outbreak of acute diarrhoea in poultry birds at Aizawl, Mizoram was investigated for detection and characterization of STEC and enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). METHODS E. coli was isolated and identified from rectal swabs, intestinal contents, heart bl...

A life-threatening Escherichia coli meningitis after prostate biopsy.

Received June 2009 Accepted August 2010 INTRODUCTION Transrectal prostate biopsy (TPB) is used for diagnosis of the prostate cancer. Although it seems to have fewer complications than other methods, infectious and noninfectious complications may occur following TPB. Antibiotic prophylaxis is commonly used before the procedure, but because the resistant bacteria are increasing in the every day c...