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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Multilocus Sequence Types in Guatemala and Mexico |
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| Authors: | Matilda Nicklasson John Klena Claudia Rodas August Louis Bourgeois Olga Torres Ann-Mari Svennerholm ?sa Sj?ling |
| Affiliation: | University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden (M. Nicklasson, C. Rodas, A.-M. Svennerholm, Å. Sjöling);United States Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo, Egypt (J. Klena);Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (A.L. Bourgeois);Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá, Guatemala City, Guatemala (O. Torres) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Keywords: | MLST CS6 Escherichia coli heat-stable toxin sequence type bacteria Guatemala Mexico dispatch |