Diarrhoea associated with heat-stable enterotoxin-producing strains of Escherichia coli

Sack, D.A.; Merson, M.H.; Wells, J.G.; Sack, R.B.; Morris, G.K.

Lancet 2(7928): 239-241

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0140-6736
PMID: 49793
Document Number: 92204
Five patients who developed acute watery diarrhoea while travelling in Mexico in October, 1974, were found to have enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in their stool which produced heat-stable enterotoxin (S.T.) without producing heat-labile enterotoxin (L.T.). These S.T.-only E. coli, which have previously been described as causing diseases in animals, must now be regarded as pathogenic for humans as well.

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