Why are so many enteric pathogen infections asymptomatic? Pathogen and gut microbiome characteristics associated with diarrhea symptoms and carriage of diarrheagenic E. coli in northern Ecuador

Why are so many enteric pathogen infections asymptomatic? Pathogen and gut microbiome characteristics associated with diarrhea symptoms and carriage of diarrheagenic E. coli in northern Ecuador

ABSTRACTA high proportion of enteric infections, including those caused by diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC), are asymptomatic for diarrhea. The factors responsible for the development of diarrhea symptoms, or lack thereof, remain unclear. Here, we used DEC isolate genome and whole stool microbio...

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Main Authors: Kelsey J Jesser, Gabriel Trueba, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Karen Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-12-01
Series:Gut Microbes
Subjects:
Diarrhea
e. coli
gut microbiome
pathogen
symptomatic
asymptomatic
Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19490976.2023.2281010

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19490976.2023.2281010

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