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J Med Microbiol 52 (2003), 499-504; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.04977-0
© 2003 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) isolated from children with and without diarrhoea in Londrina, Brazil

Eliane Blanco Nunes1, Halha Ostrensky Saridakis1, Kinue Irino2 and Jacinta Sanchez Pelayo1

1Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil 2Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brazil#dReceived 29 May 2002 Accepted 12 February 2003

Correspondence: Jacinta Sanchez Pelayo (jspelayo{at}sercomtel.com.br)


Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) have been implicated in diarrhoea in humans in several countries. A total of 919 E. coli strains, isolated from 125 children with diarrhoea and 98 without diarrhoea, was investigated by PCR for the presence of the EAF, bfp, eae and stx genes. Thirty-four of these isolates were found to carry the eae gene; they were isolated from 27 (79.4 %) children with diarrhoea and seven (20.6 %) controls, in the city of Londrina, Brazil. These strains were investigated for their genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. Different genetic profiles were observed; strains containing the eae gene alone were most common (47.1 %). The characteristic genetic profile of typical enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), eae, bfp and EAF, was only found in isolates from children with diarrhoea. The stx gene was not detected in any of the 34 strains studied. Ten (29.4 %) strains were negative in the fluorescent actin-staining test. Localized adhesion (LA) was the most common pattern of adhesion (44.1 %), followed by the aggregative adhesion (AA) (23.5 %) and localized adhesion-like (LAL) (14.7 %) patterns. The results showed a strong association between strains presenting the LA pattern and diarrhoea. Forty-seven per cent of the strains studied belonged to classical O-serogroups of EPEC. The most common serotype found was O119 : H6; these isolates all showed the LA pattern, were positive for fluorescent actin-staining and were associated with diarrhoea. Intimin ß was detected in seven strains, four of which belonged to serotype O119 : H6 and three to serotype ONT : H7; all were associated with diarrhoea. On the other hand, intimin {epsilon} was detected in two strains of serotype O111 : H38 and one of serotype ONT : H19, isolated from children without diarrhoea. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the occurrence of intimin {epsilon} in strains of E. coli isolated from humans in Brazil.

Abbreviations: AA, aggregative adhesion; AEEC, attaching and effacing E. coli; DA, diffuse adhesion; EAF, EPEC adherence factor; EHEC, enterohaemorrhagic E. coli; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; FAS, fluorescent actin-staining; IS, isolated bacteria; LA, localized adhesion; LAL, localized adhesion-like; LEE, locus of enterocyte effacement; NA, non-adherent.




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