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... > Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Escherichia > Escherichia coli > Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
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Preferred term

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • E coli, Enterotoxigenic
  • Enterotoxigenic E. coli
  • Escherichia coli, Enterotoxigenic
  • ETEC

Note

  • infection: coordinate IM with ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION (IM)

Scope note

  • Strains of ESCHERICHIA COLI that produce or contain at least one member of either heat-labile or heat-stable ENTEROTOXINS. The organisms colonize the mucosal surface of the small intestine and elaborate their enterotoxins causing DIARRHEA. They are mainly associated with tropical and developing countries and affect susceptible travelers to those places.

History note

  • 2008

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054307

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