Abstract
Five patients who developed acute watery diarrhoea while travelling in Mexico in October, 1974, were found to have enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in their stool which produced heat-stable enterotoxin (S.T.) without producing heat-labile enterotoxin (L.T.). These S.T.-only E. coli, which have previously been described as causing diseases in animals, must now be regarded as pathogenic for humans as well.
Publication types
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Animals
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Culture Techniques
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Diarrhea / etiology
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Diarrhea / microbiology*
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Disease Outbreaks*
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Enterotoxins / isolation & purification
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Escherichia coli / isolation & purification*
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Escherichia coli / pathogenicity
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Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
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Feces / microbiology
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Hot Temperature
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Humans
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Male
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Mexico
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Mice
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Prospective Studies
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Rabbits
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Serotyping