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SUBMITTER: Rajendran P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3918514 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 20101001 2
The prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) in children under 5 years was studied in children with diarrhea and controls in South India. Four polymerase chain reaction (PCR) "schemes" were used to detect genes of the 6 pathotypes of DEC. In 394 children with diarrhea, 203 (52%) DEC infections were found. Among the 198 controls, 126 (63%) DEC infections were found. Enteroaggregative E. coli was the most common pathotype by multiplex PCR both in cases (58, 14.7%) and controls (47, 23.7% ...[more]