Colonization factors in Escherichia isolated from children with acute intestinal diseases
Mnatsakanov, S.T.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 7: 41-43
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 6353816 Document Number: 219758
The occurrence of colonization factors CFAI/CFAII in 621 E. coli strains isolated from the feces of 147 children with acute intestinal diseases and in 295 E. coli cultures isolated from 59 practically healthy children aged up to 1 year was studied by means of the slide hemagglutination test with a 3% human group B red cell suspension (CFAI) and a 3% bovine red cell suspension (CFAII) with 1% D-mannose added. Escherichia strains with colonization factors CFAI/CFAII were detected in 38 out of 147 sick children (25.85%) and in 4 out of 59 practically healthy children (6.77%). No correlation between the presence of adhesive properties and the production of enterotoxin, as well as O-antigen, in the strains under study was demonstrated.