%0 Journal Article
%A Mora, Francisco X.
%A Avilés Reyes, Rolando X.
%A Guerrero Latorre, Laura
%A Fernández Moreira, Esteban
%T Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) in children under five years old with  diarrhea in Quito (Ecuador)
%D 2016
%@ 1139-6709
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124974
%X Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) remain one the most important pathogens infecting children and they areone of the main causes of persistent diarrhea worldwide. In this study, we have isolated EPEC from 94 stool samples of childrenunder five years old with diarrheal illness in the area of Quito (Ecuador), and we have determined the occurrence of the twosubtypes of EPEC, typical EPEC (tEPEC) and atypical (aEPEC), by PCR amplification of the genes eae (attaching and effacing)and bfp (bundle- forming pilus). Typical EPEC is positive for eae and bfp genes while aEPEC is positive only for eae. Our resultssuggest that aEPEC is the most prevalent subtype in Quito (89.36 %), while subtype tEPEC is less prevalent (10.64 %).
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