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Characteristics of enteroaggregative isolated from healthy carriers and from patients with diarrhoea Free

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the virulence characteristics and phylogenetic features of enteroaggregative (EAEC) strains from adults with and without diarrhoea and to search for associations between the analysed genes and carrier or diarrhoeagenic strains, respectively. Faecal samples of 487 healthy humans were screened for EAEC strains and compared with isolates from diarrhoeal patients. Virulence and virulence-associated gene typing, serotyping, multilocus sequence typing and antibiotic susceptibility testing were performed for characterization of the isolates. Characteristics significantly linked to carrier strains or to diarrhoeagenic strains were determined. From 487 stool samples, 24 EAEC strains were obtained. Comparison with strains originating from diseased persons showed a statistically significant association of the genes ( = 0.002) and ( = 0.0139) with the carrier strains, and of pCVD432 ( = 0.0001), ( = 0.003), ( = 0.0048) and ( = 0.031) with the diarrhoeagenic strains. Our study indicates that a certain subset of EAEC is unrelated to diarrhoea, for which and may be markers. Our results further suggest that diarrhoeagenic EAEC strains are distinguishable from carrier strains and suggest that, in addition to well-established markers such as pCVD432 and , and may be useful additional markers to define EAEC as an aetiological agent of diarrhoea in adults.

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Characteristics of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli isolated from healthy carriers and from patients with diarrhoea
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