| incidence of sporadic infections due to enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec) in the population of hamburg, north germany. | in two studies (1982 and 1985/86), the presence of enterotoxigenic e. coli (etec) and other enteropathogenic bacteria was investigated in 779 stool specimens from children and adults with and without diarrhoeal disease. etec was isolated from 2% of diseased children and 1.6% of adult patients, but also from 0.5% of asymptomatic persons. mixed infections with two different etec strains or with other enteropathogenic bacteria were identified in 4 of 9 infected persons. the etec strains belonged to ... | 1989 | 2692585 |