In a study carried out in small-town and rural primary health care centers in southwestern
Nigeria, 330 Escherichia coli strains isolated from 187 children with diarrhea and 144 …

The detection of heat-labile enterotoxin LT-A and heat-stable enterotoxin ST Ia and ST Ib
genes from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) by using oligonucleotide DNA probes …

Stool specimens from 113 adult outpatients with diarrhea in southwestern Nigeria and 63
controls were examined for bacterial and parasitic enteric pathogens. Enterohemorrhagic …

Escherichia coli strains isolated from sporadic cases of acute diarrhea in children and adults
and from children without diarrhea were investigated for the presence of the pAA plasmid …

The development of DNA probes is reviewed, and future developments are predicted. The
principles of nucleic acid hybridization and the design and preparation of DNA probes are …

Four synthetic oligonucleotide probes representing different regions of the Shiga-like toxin I
(SLT-I) structural genes and one oligonucleotide derived from the SLT-II gene of Escherichia …

Alkaline phosphatase-conjugated (AP) 26-base oligonucleotide DNA probes were
compared with the same probes labeled with gamma-32P for the identification of heat-labile …

Restriction endonuclease-generated polynucleotide and synthetically produced
oligonucleotide gene probes used in colony hybridization assays proved to be efficient for …

In this study, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method has been developed for the
detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). Three different sets of oligonucleotide …

On the basis of the published nucleotide sequences of the genes that code for the heat-
labile toxin LTh and the heat-stable toxins STaI and STaII of human enterotoxigenic …