Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Plesiomonas shigelloides Infection, Ecuador, 2004–2008

Juan C. Escobar, Darlene Bhavnani, Gabriel Trueba, Karina Ponce, William Cevallos, and Joseph Eisenberg

Author affiliations: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (J. Eisenberg, D. Bhavnani); Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador (G. Trueba, W. Cevallos, K. Ponce, J.-C. Escobar)

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Case prevalence (black) and weighted community prevalence (gray) of enteric pathogens, Ecuador, 2004–2008. Identification of pathogenic Escherichia coli was based on the genes given in parentheses.

Figure. Case prevalence (black) and weighted community prevalence (white) of enteric pathogens, Ecuador, 2004–2008. Identification of pathogenic Escherichia coli was based on the genes given in parentheses. EIEC, enteroinvasive E. coli; Ipah, invasion plasmid antigen gene; ETEC, enterotoxigenic E. coli; LT, heat-labile toxin; ST, heat-stable toxin; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; bfp, bundle-forming pili.

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