PMID- 6753473
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19821216
LR  - 20190821
IS  - 0001-656X (Print)
IS  - 0001-656X (Linking)
VI  - 71
IP  - 2
DP  - 1982 Mar
TI  - Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and other enteropathogens in paediatric 
      diarrhoea in Addis Ababa.
PG  - 279-86
AB  - This study was performed during two weeks among 86 paediatric outpatients of poor 
      socio-economic background. A control group comprised 60 healthy children. 
      Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was the most common diarrhoeal agent 
      isolated (26%). Strains of ETEC producing heat-labile (LT) only or LT and 
      heat-stable (ST) enterotoxin were isolated from 11% each and ETEC producing ST 
      only from 4% of the patients. ETEC was also found not infrequently among controls 
      (10%). ETEC with O-antigens 78, 6 and 8 were shown to harbour colonization 
      factors. Enterotoxigenic bacteria were found as contaminants in 5 of 24 feeding 
      bottles investigated. Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Shigella 
      species were isolated from 8% each and rotavirus from 24% of the patients. Twelve 
      patients infected with ETEC only were compared to 66 patients not infected with 
      ETEC. Patients infected with ETEC had a relatively mild disease and it was not 
      possible by clinical findings to distinguish those patients infected with ETEC, 
      LT and/or ST producing, carrying or not carrying colonization factors from those 
      infected with other agents. This study underlines the need for extended studies 
      of the clinical significance of ETEC infection in developing countries.
FAU - Stintzing, G
AU  - Stintzing G
FAU - Mollby, R
AU  - Mollby R
FAU - Habte, D
AU  - Habte D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Sweden
TA  - Acta Paediatr Scand
JT  - Acta paediatrica Scandinavica
JID - 0000211
RN  - 0 (Enterotoxins)
SB  - IM
MH  - Diarrhea, Infantile/diagnosis/*microbiology
MH  - Enterotoxins/*metabolism
MH  - Escherichia coli/*isolation & purification/metabolism
MH  - Feces/microbiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Food Microbiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant Food
MH  - Male
MH  - Specimen Handling
EDAT- 1982/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1982/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1982/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1982/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1982/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1982/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09415.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Paediatr Scand. 1982 Mar;71(2):279-86. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09415.x.