DNA probe analysis of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli: detection of EAF-positive isolates of traditional enteropathogenic E. coli serotypes among Bangladeshi paediatric diarrhoea patients

Escherichia coli isolates from all surveillance patients less than or equal to 20 months of age seen for diarrhoea at the Dhaka Clinical Treatment Facility of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh between March 1 and August 31, 1988, were collected and hybridized with DNA probes to assess the potential importance of diarrhoeagenic E. coli among paediatric patients in Bangladesh. Of 396 patients evaluated, 18% were...