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| Scaletsky,Isabel Cristina Affonso; Fabbricotti,Sandra Hilde; Carvalho,Rozane de Lima Bigelli; Nunes,Claudia Regina; Maranhão,Helcio de Sousa; Morais,Mauro Batista de; Riley,Lee; Fagundes-Neto,Ulysses. |
| Childhood diarrheal diseases remain highly endemic in northeastern Brazil. The attributable fraction of all diarrheal diseases among children less than 2 years of age due to Escherichia coli was examined in a 2-year prospective study in two large urban centers of Brazil. Between May 1997 and June 1999, fecal E. coli isolates from 237 children with diarrhea (217 acute and 20 persistent cases) and 231 children without diarrhea (controls) attending two hospitals in Northeast Brazil were tested for their pattern of adherence to HEp-2 cells and for colony hybridization with DNA probes specific for the six pathotypes of diarrheagenic E. coli. Enteroinvasive E. coli, enterotoxigenic E. coli and enterohemorrhagic E. coli were not isolated from any children.... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Escherichia coli; Diffusely adherent E. coli; Enteroaggregative E. coli; Adherence patterns; Childhood diarrhea. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822001000400012 |
