TY - JOUR AU - Nicklasson, Matilda AU - Klena, John AU - Rodas, Claudia AU - Bourgeois, August Louis AU - Torres, Olga AU - Svennerholm, Ann-Mari AU - Sjöling, Åsa T1 - Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Multilocus Sequence Types in Guatemala and Mexico T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 1 SP - 143 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The genetic backgrounds of 24 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains from Mexico and Guatemala expressing heat-stable toxin (ST) and coli surface antigen 6 (CS6) were analyzed. US travelers to these countries and resident children in Guatemala were infected by ETEC strains of sequence type 398, expressing STp and carrying genetically identical CS6 sequences. KW - MLST KW - CS6 KW - Escherichia coli KW - heat-stable toxin KW - sequence type KW - bacteria KW - Guatemala KW - Mexico KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1601.090979 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/09-0979_article ER - End of Reference