Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2010)

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Multilocus Sequence Types in Guatemala and Mexico

  • Matilda Nicklasson,
  • John D. Klena,
  • Claudia Rodas,
  • August Louis Bourgeois,
  • Olga Torres,
  • Ann-Mari Svennerholm,
  • Åsa Sjöling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1601.090979
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 143 – 146

Abstract

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The genetic backgrounds of 24 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains from Mexico and Guatemala expressing heat-stable toxin (ST) and coli surface antigen 6 (CS6) were analyzed. US travelers to these countries and resident children in Guatemala were infected by ETEC strains of sequence type 398, expressing STp and carrying genetically identical CS6 sequences.

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