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| Rodas,Claudia; Mamani,Rosalía; Blanco,Jorge; Blanco,Jesus Eulogio; Wiklund,Gudrun; Svennerholm,Ann-Mari; Sjöling,Åsa; Iniguez,Volga. |
| Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is recognized as the main cause of bacterial diarrhoea among children in Asia, Africa and Latin America but less investigated in Bolivia. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relation between enterotoxins, CFs and serotypes as well as the antimicrobial resistance patterns in a set of ETEC isolates collected from hospitalized children with acute diarrhea. In the present study we characterized 43 ETEC strains isolated from 2002 to 2006 from hospitalized children (0-5 years) with acute diarrhea in Bolivia. The strains were analyzed for heat-labile (LT) and heat-stable (ST) enterotoxins and colonization factor (CF) profiles, as well as for serogroups and antimicrobial resistance using phenotypic (ELISA, dot blot, slide... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; Enterotoxins; Drug resistance; Bolivia. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702011000200007 |
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