Fig 1.
Geographical locations of sampling sites and pathotypes identified by the municipality of Oaxaca state, southwest Mexico.
The open-source software QGIS (Quantum GIS Development Team) was used to pinpoint the geographic locations of the sampling sites and can be found at https://qgis.org/es/site/.
Table 1.
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) isolated from children with diarrhea by age group.
Table 2.
Association between diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) and clinical symptoms of children with diarrhea.
Table 3.
Distribution of SVG in DEC isolated from children with diarrhea.
Table 4.
Distribution of phylogroup in E. coli isolated from children with diarrhea.
Fig 2.
Cytotoxicity assay of DEC with SVG isolated from children with diarrhea.
HEp-2 cells were infected with several DEC strains. For controls, E. coli HB101 was used as a negative control of cytotoxicity, while buffer lysis was used as a positive control. Cytotoxicity was quantified by LDH release. One-way analysis of variance was used to determine the p-value. *: p < 0. 00005, **: p < 0. 000005.
Table 5.
Antibiotic resistance of DEC isolated from children with diarrhea.