TY - JOUR AU - Blank, T. Eric AU - Lacher, David W. AU - Scaletsky, Isabel C.A. AU - Zhong, Hailang AU - Whittam, Thomas S. AU - Donnenberg, Michael S. T1 - Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O157 Strains from Brazil T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 113 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe two serogroup O157 Escherichia coli strains from Brazilian infants with diarrhea. A variety of assays indicate that these strains belong to the enteropathogenic, not the enterohemorrhagic, pathotype. These strains possess a novel bfpA allele encoding the type IV pilin characteristic of typical enteropathogenic E. coli strains. Our results emphasize the pitfalls of classifying pathogenic E. coli by serogroup. KW - Escherichia coli infections KW - classification KW - phylogeny KW - base sequence KW - sequence alignment KW - fimbriae KW - bacterial KW - dispatch KW - Brazil DO - 10.3201/eid0901.020072 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/1/02-0072_article ER - End of Reference