Bibliographic citations
Contreras, C., (2010). Asociación de variabilidad genética y fenótipica de Escherichia coli enteropatógena (EPEC) con cuadros de diarrea en niños menores de un año [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/974
Contreras, C., Asociación de variabilidad genética y fenótipica de Escherichia coli enteropatógena (EPEC) con cuadros de diarrea en niños menores de un año [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/974
@misc{renati/484613,
title = "Asociación de variabilidad genética y fenótipica de Escherichia coli enteropatógena (EPEC) con cuadros de diarrea en niños menores de un año",
author = "Contreras García, Carmen Adriana",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2010"
}
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains are amongst the major causes of infantile diarrhea in developing countries and can be classified as typical (tEPEC) atypical (aEPEC), depending on the presence or absence of the E. coli adherence factor plasmid (pEAF), respectively. The aim of this study was to describe the allelic diversity of critical virulence EPEC genes, phenotype; and the association of these results with clinical characteristics. 120 EPEC strains isolated from a cohort diarrhea study in Peruvian children were characterized for the allele of eae (intimin), bfpA (bundling pilin protein of bundle-forming pilus) and perA (plasmid encoded regulator) genes by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism. The EPEC phenotype was evaluated using, the protein precipitation assay (EspA, EspB, EspD y EspC), the adherence and the actin polymerization assay (FAS). aEPEC strains (eae+, bfp-) were the most common pathotype in diarrhea (54/74, 73%) and control samples from children without diarrhea (40/46, 87%). Overall there were 13 eae alleles; the most common were beta (34/120, 28%), theta (24/120, 20%), kappa (14/120, 12%) and mu (8/120, 7%). There were 5 bfpA alleles; the most common were beta1/7 (10/26), alpha3 (7/26) and beta5 (3/26). There were 3 perA alleles: beta (8/16), alpha (7/16) and gamma (1/16). The gamma-intimin allele was more frequently found in diarrhea episodes of longer duration (>7 days) than shorter (3/26, 12% vs. 0/48, 0%, p less than 0.05). The kappa-intimin allele had the highest clinical severity score in comparison to other alleles (p less than 0.05). Of the four adherence patterns found: LA (localized adherence); LAL (LA-like); DA (diffuse adherence) and IS/NA (isolated strain/ not adherence); LA pattern was more related to tEPEC (eae+, bfpA+) than aEPEC in diarrhea cases (6/8, 75% vs. 2/38, 5%, p less than 0.05). The IS/NA pattern was related to aEPEC compared to tEPEC in diarrhea cases (26/38, 68% vs. 1/8, 13%, p less than 0.05). We found that the actin polimerization (P) was significantly associated to tEPEC in both, diarrhea (6/8, 75% vs. 1/38, 3%, p less than0.05).
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