| enterotoxigenicity of klebsiella pneumoniae associated with childhood gastroenteritis in madras, india. | klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated as the predominant growth from 12 of 100 children under 3 years of age suffering from acute diarrhea. of the 12 isolates, sa1, sa2, sa4, sa5, sa6 produced a secretogenic response in the ligated rabbit ileal loop, and one isolate, sa3, induced a diarrheagenic response in suckling mice. two isolates, sa7 and sa8, were diarrheagenic in both assays. strains sa9, sa10, sa11, and sa12 were found to be non-enterotoxigenic. these isolates belonged to serotypes k6, 16, ... | 1999 | 10808254 |