Isolation of necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli from paediatric patients with acute diarrhoea

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 503-504

  Kavitha, Kannaiyan ^a   Prabhakar, K ^b   Rajendran, S ^b   Uma, B ^b   Sarayu, Y Lakshmi ^b  

^a Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOTOXIC NECROTIZING FACTOR 1; CYTOTOXIC NECROTIZING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOTOXIC NECROTIZING FACTOR TYPE 2; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; ACUTE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN;

EID: 77950465490     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.015016-0     Document Type: Letter

References (14)

1. Bisicchia, R., Ciammarughi, R., Caprioli, A., Falbo, V. & Ruggeri, F. M. (1985). Toxin production and haemagglutination in strains of Escherichia coli from diarrhoea in Brescia, Italy. J Hyg 95, 353-361. (Pubitemid 16227114)
2. Blanco, J., Gonzalez, E. A., Espinosa, P., Blanco, M., Garabal, J. I. & Alonso, M. P. (1992a). Enterotoxigenic and necrotizing Escherichia coli in human diarrhoea in Spain. Eur J Epidemiol 8, 548-552.
3. Blanco, J., Blanco, M., Alonso, M. P., Blanco, J. E., Garabal, J. I. & Gonzalez, E. A. (1992b). Serogroups of Escherichia coli strains producing cytotoxic necrotizing factors CNF1 and CNF2. FEMS Microbiol Lett 96, 155-159.
4. Caprioli, A., Falbo, V., Roda, L. G., Ruggeri, F. M. & Zona, C. (1983). Partial purification and characterization of an Escherichia coli toxic factor that induces morphological cell alterations. Infect Immun 39, 1300-1306. (Pubitemid 13159977)
5. De Rycke, J., Milon, A. & Oswald, E. (1999). Necrotoxic Escherichia coli (NTEC): two emerging categories of human and animal pathogens. Vet Res 30, 221-233. (Pubitemid 129587970)
6. Falbo, V., Famiglietti, M. & Caprioli, A. (1992). Gene block encoding production of cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 and hemolysin in Escherichia coli isolates from extraintestinal infections. Infect Immun 60, 2182-2187.
7. Gaillard, J. L., Cheron, G., Mougenot, J. F., Deslys, J. P., Nezelof, C., Veron, M. & Schmitz, J. (1989). Pyelonephritic Escherichia coli strains as intestinal pathogens in two newborn infants. Lancet 333, 327-328. (Pubitemid 19049427)
8. Mainil, J. G., Jacquemin, E., Pohl, P., Fairbrother, J. M., Ansuini, A., Le Bouguenec, C., Ball, H. J., De Rycke, J. & Oswald, E. (1999). Comparison of necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolates from farm animals and from humans. Vet Microbiol 70, 123-135. (Pubitemid 29512302)
9. Obi, C. L., Green, E., Bessong, P. O., de Villiers, B., Hoosen, A. A., Igumbor, E. O. & Potgieter, N. (2004). Gene encoding virulence markers among Escherichia coli isolates from diarrhoeic stool samples and river sources in rural Venda communities of South Africa. Water SA 30, 37-42. (Pubitemid 38390517)
10. Orden, J. A., Domínguez-Bernal, G., Martínez- Pulgarín, S., Blanco, M., Blanco, J. E., Mora, A., Blanco, J. & de la Fuente, R. (2007). Necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli from sheep and goats produce a new type of cytotoxic necrotizing factors (CNF3) associated with eae and ehxA genes. Int Microbiol 10, 47-55. (Pubitemid 46556858)
11. Pass, M. A., Odedra, R. & Batt, R. M. (2000). Multiplex PCRs for identification of Escherichia coli virulence genes. J Clin Microbiol 38, 2001-2004. (Pubitemid 30253957)
12. Reischl, U., Youssef, M. T., Kilwinski, J., Lehn, N., Zhang, W. L., Karch, H. & Strobine, N. A. (2002). Real time fluorescence PCR assays for the detection and characterization of Shiga toxin, intimin, and enterohemolysin genes from Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. J Clin Microbiol 40, 2555-2565. (Pubitemid 34747362)
13. Stoll, T., Markwirth, G., Reipschlager, S. & Schmidt, G. (2009). A new member of a growing toxin family - Escherichia coli cytotoxic necrotizing factor 3 (CNF3). Toxicon 54, 745-753.
14. Van Bost, S., Jacquemin, E., Oswald, E. & Mainil, J. (2003). Multiplex PCRs for identification of necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli. J Clin Microbiol 41, 4480-4482. (Pubitemid 37099738)