Noah O Okumu, Joseph J N Ngeranwa, Dishon M Muloi, Linnet Ochien'g, Arshnee Moodley, Christine Mutisya, Alice Kiarie, Joseph O Wasonga, Julie Watson, Maud Akissi Amon-Tanoh, Oliver Cumming, Elizabeth A J Cook
Escherichia coli commonly inhabits the gut of humans and animals as part of their microbiota. Though mostly innocuous, some strains have virulence markers that make them pathogenic. This paper presents results of a cross-sectional epidemiological study examining prevalence of diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) pathotypes in stool samples of asymptomatic healthy children (n = 540) in Dagoretti South subcounty, Nairobi, Kenya. E. coli was cultured and pathotyped using PCR to target specific virulence markers associated with Shiga-toxin, enteropathogenic, enterotoxigenic, enteroaggregative, entero-invasive and diffusely adherent E...
2023: PLOS Glob Public Health