Clinical profile and antimicrobial resistance pattern of Enteroaggregative E.coli isolated from patients with diarrhoea, using a multiplex PCR assay in a tertiary care hospital in North India

摘要

Background: Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an increasingly recognized enteric pathogen which can cause both acute and persistent diarrhoea in children,traveller's diarrhoea and diarrhoea in immunocompromised patients. The identification of EAEC by conventional techniques is technically demanding and time consuming. The genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity also makes the diagnosis of EAEC difficult. Therefore a single assay multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can be useful for the identification of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli.