Clonal origin, restricted natural distribution, and conservation of virulence factors in isolates of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli serogroup O126.
AUTOR(ES)
Yam, W C
RESUMO
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli serogroup O126 isolates have been isolated in Hong Kong since 1982 from sporadic cases of infantile diarrhea and from one outbreak in a neonatal ward. A 64-megadalton plasmid encoding colonization factor antigen I and heat-stable enterotoxin was identified in all 23 isolates. Enterotoxigenic E. coli strains producing heat-stable enterotoxin from different regions of Southeast Asia were collected and compared by biotyping, antibiotic resistance patterns, and plasmid profiles. Restriction endonuclease digestion of plasmids and subsequent Southern blot analysis with the heat-stable enterotoxin gene probe of representative strains showed a unique plasmid was harbored by all heat-stable enterotoxin-producing O126 strains tested. These results are consistent with conservative inheritance of enterotoxin plasmids within enterotoxigenic E. coli strains over a 2-year period in Hong Kong.
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