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Infect Immun. 1988 June; 56(6): 1513-1517

Molecular analysis of enterotoxin plasmids of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli of 14 different O serotypes.

H Danbara, K Komase, H Arita, H Abe and M Yoshikawa

Department of Bacteriology, University of Tokyo, Japan.

ABSTRACT

A total of 104 isolates of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli derived from diarrheal patients from more than 10 countries were examined for serotype and toxigenicity. The transferability and molecular structure of the enterotoxin plasmids from each isolate were also examined. Enterotoxin plasmids from serotypes such as O6, O25, O27, O126, O128, and O159, which are frequently associated with E. coli diarrhea (classical strains) generally did not transfer by conjugation from clinical isolates, whereas those from serotypes such as O7, O17, O80, O98, O139, O150, and O153, which are rarely associated with diarrhea (rare strains) transferred almost always from the clinical isolates by conjugation. Analyses of enterotoxin plasmids by restriction endonucleases and DNA-DNA hybridization with the enterotoxin probes revealed that the strains with the same O serotype and toxigenicity carry closely related enterotoxin plasmids. These results suggest that classical strains resulted from the dissemination of ancestral clones which received enterotoxin plasmids long ago, while the rare strains acquired the enterotoxin plasmids recently by conjugation and have not yet been spread to the same degree as the ancestral clones.

Infect Immun. 1988 June; 56(6): 1513-1517






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