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Infect Immun. 1972 April; 5(4): 622-624
Copyright © 1972 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Plasmid-Associated Enterotoxin Production in a Strain of Escherichia coli Isolated from Humans

Department of Microbiology, Georgetown University School of Medicine and Dentistry, Washington, D.C. 20007
Department of Applied Immunology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20012

ABSTRACT

A strain of Escherichia coli isolated from an epidemic of "nonspecific" diarrhea has been shown to harbor a plasmid which specifies enterotoxin production.

¹ Present address: Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98105.

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