background: the purpose of this study was to find out the frequency of different serotypes of enteropathogenic es­cherichia coli (epec) among healthy/diarrheal cases. methods: a total of 191 strains, 111 from diarrheal and 80 from asymptomatic persons were examined. determination of the epec sero­groups was performed by agglutination tests using polyvalent and monovalent o antiserum. pcr-rflp a...

acute infectious gastroenteritis is one of the most common infectious diseases of humans in the world. diarrhea is a significant cause of death in infants. it has been estimated that up to 15% of children in developing nations die of diarrhea before 3 years of age. this study has been carried out to investigate entheropathogenic bacteria from 558 specimens of children less than 5 years of age. ...