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Isolation of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from British troops in Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. A. Willshaw ,
T. Cheasty ,
B. Rowe ,
H. R. Smith ,
D. N. Faithfull-Davies  and
T. G. J. Brooks
G. A. Willshaw
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT, UK
T. Cheasty
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT, UK
B. Rowe
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT, UK
H. R. Smith
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT, UK
D. N. Faithfull-Davies
Affiliation:
Leishman Laboratory, Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hants GU11 2AN, UK
T. G. J. Brooks
Affiliation:
CBDE, Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ, UK
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Specimens from 181 patients with diarrhoea were examined by a Military General Hospital in a 3-month period during deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia in 1990/1. DNA probes for heat labile (LT) and heat stable (ST) enterotoxin genes identified enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) in 47 of the specimens (26%) and 49 ETEC strains were isolated. The majority (55%) belonged to a novel ETEC serotype having the O-antigen 159 and a flagellar antigen designated as a provisional new type. They produced ST and the coli surface associated antigen (CS)6. Strains of serotype O6:H16 represented 22% of the ETEC examined. They produced ST, LT and CSS together with either CS1 or CS2. The remaining ETEC belonged to seven O:H serotypes. Overall, ST was the only enterotoxin gene identified in 73% of the ETEC and 67% of the strains expressed CS6 in the absence of other colonization antigens. Resistance to three or more antibiotics was observed in 53% of the ETEC, including most of the O159 strains.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , December 1995 , pp. 455 - 463
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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