DIARRHEA DUE TO ESCHERICHIA-COLI IN RABBIT - NOVEL MECHANISM
DIARRHEA DUE TO ESCHERICHIA-COLI IN RABBIT - NOVEL MECHANISM
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DOI:
10.1093/infdis/135.3.454
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
BLAKE, RK
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作者:
CANTEY, JR;BLAKE, RK
A strain of E. coli O15 (RDEC-1) isolated from several rabbits with diarrhea was examined to determine whether the strain could produce diarrhea when administered by the orogastric route to other rabbits and whether this strain was invasive or enterotoxigenic. Strain RDEC-1 produced diarrhea in 48 of 62 rabbits when given by the orogastric route in doses that ranged from 1.5 .times. 102 to 4 .times. 1010 bacteria. The organism did not give a positive result in the 18 h ileal loop or Sereny tests and did not invade [human cervical carcinoma] HeLa cells. Culture supernatants of strain RDEC-1 did not give positive results in the 6- or 18-h rabbit ileal loop, suckling mouse, [mouse] Y-1 adrenal cell or Chinese hamster ovary cell assays. Fluorescent antibody staining of sections of intestine prepared in a cryostat revealed great numbers of E. coli strain RDEC-1 that adhered to the epithelial surface. E. coli apparently can produce diarrhea without being able to invade the mucosa or synthesize enterotoxin. Strains of E. coli similar to RDEC-1 may account for some of the E. coli-associated diarrhea that occurs in humans.