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High Prevalence of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among Children with Diarrhea in Kenya
2017
Japanese journal of infectious diseases (Print)
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) is an important agent of endemic and epidemic diarrhea worldwide, particularly in developing countries. DEC cannot be differentiated from commensal E. coli on selective media, although there are a few exceptions. Most studies use the colony isolation method, which cannot detect low numbers of DEC, and therefore, these studies might underestimate the incidence of DEC. In the present study, we employed a colony sweep method with real-time PCR targeting
doi:10.7883/yoken.jjid.2016.064
pmid:27169953
fatcat:hv5ev5fl2jfz5ix5qqala6sm3e