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Colonization factors andEscherichia coli belonging to enterotoxin-associated serotypes

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Hemagglutination (HA) tests using human and bovine erythrocytes and microagglutination tests using pili-specific antisera (PSA) were performed to examine 168 strains ofEscherichia coli belonging to enterotoxin-associated serotypes for colonization factors (CFs). Seventy-one (42%) of these 168 strains possessed at CF, but only 10 (6%) were found positive by both HA and PSA tests. Groups of test strains from different sources (feces, urine, blood, and wounds) were not found to contain statistically different percentages of CF-positive strains. Strains producing heat-stable enterotoxin alone were less frequently associated with a CF than were other enterotoxigenic and nonenterotoxigenic strains. Strains showing heat-labile hemolytic activity and belonging to serotype O6: H—were less likely (P=0.014, Fisher's exact probability) to contain a CF than were similarly hemolytic strains belonging to other serotypes.

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  1. Diagnostic Laboratory, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, P. O. Box 786, 14850, Ithaca, New York, USA

    John M. DeBoy

  2. Infectious Disease Department, New England Medical Center Hospital, 171 Harrison Avenue, 02111, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Grace M. Thorne & Carl F. Deneke

  3. Enteric Section, Centers for Disease Control, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, U. S. Public Health Service, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    I. Kaye Wachsmuth

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DeBoy, J.M., Thorne, G.M., Deneke, C.F. et al. Colonization factors andEscherichia coli belonging to enterotoxin-associated serotypes. Current Microbiology 6, 49–53 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01566726

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