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. 2005 Jul;11(7):1104-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1107.041266.

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae diarrhea, Bangladesh, 2004

Firdausi Qadri  1 , Ashraful I Khan, Abu Syed G Faruque, Yasmin Ara Begum, Fahima Chowdhury, Gopinath B Nair, Mohammed A Salam, David A Sack, Ann-Mari Svennerholm
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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae diarrhea, Bangladesh, 2004

Firdausi Qadri et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jul.

Abstract

Flooding in Dhaka in July 2004 caused epidemics of diarrhea. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was almost as prevalent as Vibrio cholerae O1 in diarrheal stools. ETEC that produced heat-stable enterotoxin alone was most prevalent, and 78% of strains had colonization factors. Like V. cholerae O1, ETEC can cause epidemic diarrhea.

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Weekly distribution of patients with Vibrio cholerae O1 or enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infections during the study period from July 20 to August 31, 2004. The total number of patients who underwent stool analyses at the treatment center each week during the diarrheal epidemic is also shown.
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