Colonization factors among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates from children with moderate-to-severe diarrhea and from matched controls in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS).

• Main Authors: Roberto M Vidal (Author), Khitam Muhsen (Author), Sharon M Tennant (Author), Ann-Mari Svennerholm (Author), Samba O Sow (Author), Dipika Sur (Author), Anita K M Zaidi (Author), Abu S G Faruque (Author), Debasish Saha (Author), Richard Adegbola (Author), M Jahangir Hossain (Author), Pedro L Alonso (Author), Robert F Breiman (Author), Quique Bassat (Author), Boubou Tamboura (Author), Doh Sanogo (Author), Uma Onwuchekwa (Author), Byomkesh Manna (Author), Thandavarayan Ramamurthy (Author), Suman Kanungo (Author), Shahnawaz Ahmed (Author), Shahida Qureshi (Author), Farheen Quadri (Author), Anowar Hossain (Author), Sumon K Das (Author), Martin Antonio (Author), Inacio Mandomando (Author), Tacilta Nhampossa (Author), Sozinho Acácio (Author), Richard Omore (Author), John B Ochieng (Author), Joseph O Oundo (Author), Eric D Mintz (Author), Ciara E O'Reilly (Author), Lynette Y Berkeley (Author), Sofie Livio (Author), Sandra Panchalingam (Author), Dilruba Nasrin (Author), Tamer H Farag (Author), Yukun Wu (Author), Halvor Sommerfelt (Author), Roy M Robins-Browne (Author), Felipe Del Canto (Author), Tracy H Hazen (Author), David A Rasko (Author), Karen L Kotloff (Author), James P Nataro (Author), Myron M Levine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) encoding heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) alone or with heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) cause moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in developing country children. The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) identified ETEC encoding ST amon...