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. 2014 Oct;60(5):397-400.
doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmu034. Epub 2014 Aug 13.

The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of diarrhea associated with enteropathogenic, enteroaggregative and diffuse-adherent Escherichia coli in Egyptian children

Salwa F Ahmed  1 , Hind I Shaheen  2 , Ibrahim Adib Abdel-Messih  2 , Manal Mostafa  2 , Shannon D Putnam  2 , Karim A Kamal  2 , Abdel Nasser El Sayed  2 , Robert W Frenck Jr  2 , John W Sanders  2 , John D Klena  2 , Thomas F Wierzba  2
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The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of diarrhea associated with enteropathogenic, enteroaggregative and diffuse-adherent Escherichia coli in Egyptian children

Salwa F Ahmed et al. J Trop Pediatr. 2014 Oct.

Abstract

A total of 220 enteroadherent Escherichia coli were identified from 729 Egyptian children with diarrhea using the HEp-2 adherence assay. Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC = 38) was common among children <6 months old and provoked vomiting, while diffuse-adhering E.coli (DAEC = 109) induced diarrheal episodes of short duration, and enteroaggregative E.coli (EAEC = 73) induced mild non-persistent diarrhea. These results suggest that EPEC is associated with infantile diarrhea in Egyptian children.

Keywords: Egypt; diarrhea; diffuse-adherent E.coli; enteroaggregative E.coli; enteropathogenic E.coli.

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