Prevalence of Enteropathogens and Virulence Traits in Brazilian Children With and Without Diarrhea.

ABSTRACT: The use of molecular diagnostics for pathogen detection in epidemiological studies have allowed us to get a wider view of the pathogens associated with diarrhea, but the presence of enteropathogens in asymptomatic individuals has raised several challenges in understanding the etiology of diarrhea, and the use of these platforms in clinical diagnosis as well. To characterize the presence of the most relevant bacterial enteropathogens in diarrheal episodes, we evaluated here the prevalence of diarrheagenic E. coli pathotypes, Salmonella spp., and Yersinia enterocolitica in stool samples of children with and without diarrhea using real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). We found that the presence of genetic markers associated with bacterial pathogens was significantly higher i

SUBMITTER: Merino VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545120 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature