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J Clin Microbiol. 1993 February; 31(2): 351-353

Colonization by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in travelers with and without diarrhea.

M B Cohen, J A Hawkins, L S Weckbach, J L Staneck, M M Levine and J E Heck

Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229.

ABSTRACT

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) has been found to be associated with pediatric diarrhea in developing countries. In order to determine the role of EAggEC as an agent of traveler's diarrhea, we used a sensitive and specific DNA probe for EAggEC to screen bacterial colony blots from 278 volunteers before and after travel. Colonization with EAggEC was infrequent (2.5%) prior to travel but rose to 27 to 33% after travel in volunteers who took either placebo or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Travelers who took trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole were colonized with organisms that were uniformly resistant to that antimicrobial agent; when volunteers received ciprofloxacin, colonization with EAggEC was prevented (2.0%). Although colonization rates were high in the placebo and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole groups, only a minority of travelers who were colonized with EAggEC experienced diarrhea. On the basis of our data, we suggest that colonization with EAggEC alone is not sufficient to cause traveler's diarrhea.


J Clin Microbiol. 1993 February; 31(2): 351-353




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