TY - JOUR AU - Qadri, Firdausi AU - Khan, Ashraful AU - Faruque, Abu Syed AU - Begum, Yasmin Ara AU - Chowdhury, Fahima AU - Nair, Gopinath AU - Salam, Mohammed AU - Sack, David AU - Svennerholm, Ann-Mari T1 - Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae Diarrhea, Bangladesh, 2004 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 7 SP - 1104 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Flooding in Dhaka in July 2004 caused epidemics of diarrhea. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was almost as prevalent as Vibrio cholerae O1 in diarrheal stools. ETEC that produced heat-stable enterotoxin alone was most prevalent, and 78% of strains had colonization factors. Like V. cholerae O1, ETEC can cause epidemic diarrhea. KW - Keywords: Diarheal epidemic KW - ETEC KW - V. Cholera KW - Bangladesh DO - 10.3201/eid1107.041266 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/7/04-1266_article ER - End of Reference