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A strain of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli was isolated from the stool with blood and mucus of a child suffering from acute diarrhea. The strain shows the following characteristics: rapid fermentation of glucose (with gas), no fermentation of lactose, beta-galactosidase reaction positive, growth in acetate media, lysine decarboxylase negative, non-motility causing keratoconjunctivitis in guinea pigs and invading into epithelial cells, with a plasmid of 140 Md, Serotype is O121:H- which is a new serotype of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli.
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PMID:[The discovery and study on invasive strain of Escherichia coli O121]. 267 72

An attempt was made to delineate the phenotypic markers for the detection of enterotoxigenic strains of Aeromonas. Eighteen Aeromonas species comprising one isolate of A. hydrophila, six isolates of A. sobria and 11 isolates of A. caviae were obtained from 379 children suffering from acute diarrhoea in Chennai. Nine of these isolates inclusive of three A. sobria and six A. caviae were found to produce secretory response in vitro in the rabbit intestinal mucosa mounted in the Ussing chambers as revealed by significant increases in the short circuit current. Eleven strains hydrolysed aesculin, 8 fermented arabinose, 6 produced acetyl methyl carbinol, 14 produced lysine decarboxylase, 3 fermented salicin, 9 produced beta-haemolysin, 9 produced CAMP-like factor and only two isolates took up congo red dye. None of these phenotypic traits were found to correlate with the in vitro secretory activity.
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PMID:Biochemical characteristics & secretory activity of Aeromonas species isolated from children with gastroenteritis in Chennai. 1040 60

We report an outbreak of acute diarrhoea due to Aeromonas sobria in Benghazi which occurred during a 1-month period in 1997. Of 69 patients admitted with acute gastroenteritis, 28 were positive for A. sobria based on the production of gas from glucose, the production of acetoin, hydrogen sulfide and lysine decarboxylase and on aesculin hydrolysis and fermentation of arabinose and salicin. The strains were sensitive to chloramphenicol, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline and gentamicin but resistant to ampicillin and carbenicillin. We were unable to trace the source of the infection.
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PMID:An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis due to Aeromonas sobria in Benghazi, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. 1155 43