@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-17-1-53, author = "Sen, D. and Ganguly, U. and Saha, M. R. and Bhattacharya, S. K. and Datta, P. and Datta, D. and Mukherjee, A. K. and Chakravarty, R. and Pal, S. C.", title = "Studies on Escherichia coli as a cause of acute diarrhoea in calcutta", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "1984", volume = "17", number = "1", pages = "53-58", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-17-1-53", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-17-1-53", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARY The prevalence of different types of diarrhoea-producing Escherichia coli among 240 patients with acute diarrhoea in hospital was investigated. The 25 patients (10.4% of the total) from whose faeces we isolated enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) were all < 5 years old but the 29 (12.1%) from whom we isolated enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) were of various ages, most of them > 12 years old. No enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) strains were isolated. ETEC strains that produced heat-labile toxin (LT) were encountered more often than those that produced either heat-stable toxin (ST) alone or both LT and ST. The ETEC isolates were distributed among eight different serotypes, the commonest being O148:H28 (38%). Correlations between enterotoxin production, serotype pattern and possession of colonisation factor antigens I and II were observed.", }