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Topic: EIEC


In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Enteroinvasive E. Coli - Digestion and digestive-related information on MedicineNet.com
Although EIEC can cause disease in people of any age around the world, it severely strikes the very young and old and is most common in the developing world.
During the early (acute) phase of infection, large numbers of EIEC are excreted in the feces.
These EIEC strains of E. coli can be distinguished from the many other E. coli in the feces by a number of special tests (including immunochemical, tissue culture, and gene probe tests).
www.medicinenet.com /enteroinvasive_e_coli/page2.htm   (548 words)

  
 Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
EIEC was organized on September 1, 1987, as a result of the consolidation of Eastern Illinois Power Cooperative and Illini Electric Cooperative.
EIEC now provides electric service to nearly 13,000 members located in the counties of Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, McLean, Moultrie, Piatt, and Vermilion.
EIEC is governed by an elected eleven-person board of directors who establish the policies of the cooperative and hire the general manager.
www.eiec.coop /about.htm   (267 words)

  
 Differential Regulation of Multiple Proteins of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium by the ...
EIEC wild-type strain 12860 (40) was obtained from the Institute
Disruption of the chromosomal slyA gene of EIEC 12860.
that in EIEC strain 12860 and in Salmonella serovar Typhimurium
jb.asm.org /cgi/content/full/184/13/3549   (6882 words)

  
 Food-Info.net : Overview of food-borne pathogenic bacteria : Escherichia coli EIEC
It is unknown what foods may harbour these pathogenic enteroinvasive (EIEC) strains responsible for a form of bacillary dysentery.
Following the ingestion of EIEC, the organisms invade the epithelial cells of the intestine, resulting in a mild form of dysentery, often mistaken for dysentery caused by Shigella species.
It is currently unknown what foods may harbour EIEC, but any food contaminated with human faeces from an ill individual, either directly or via contaminated water, could cause disease in others.
www.food-info.net /uk/bact/eiec.htm   (359 words)

  
 US FDA/CFSAN - Bad Bug Book - Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
The EIEC strains responsible for this syndrome are closely related to Shigella spp.
The culturing of the organism from the stools of infected individuals and the demonstration of invasiveness of isolates in tissue culture or in a suitable animal model is necessary to diagnose dysentery caused by this organism.
The illness is characterized by abdominal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, chills, and a generalized malaise.
vm.cfsan.fda.gov /~mow/chap16.html   (590 words)

  
 Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli
EIEC closely resemble Shigella and causes an invasive, dysenteric form of diarrhea in humans (6).
EIEC organisms are required to cause illness in healthy adults.
Pathogenicity of EIEC is primarily due its ability to invade and destroy colonic tissue.
www.cfsan.fda.gov /~ebam/bam-4a.html   (3575 words)

  
 MedNets : A medical search engine and health portal
It is unknown what foods may harbor these pathogenic enteroinvasive (EIEC) strains responsible for a form of bacillary dysentery.
It is currently unknown what foods may harbor EIEC, but any food contaminated with human feces from an ill individual, either directly or via contaminated water, could cause disease in others.
The disease caused by EIEC is uncommon, but it may be confused with shigellosis and its prevalence may be underestimated.
www.mednets.com /mednets/index.cfm/fuseaction/articles_enteroinvasive_escherichia_coli_colitis_patient_information_enteroinvasiveecoli/articles_enteroinvasive_escherichia_coli_colitis_patient_information_enteroinvasiveecoli_remove_highlighting.htm   (453 words)

  
 Equine Science Colleges
EIEC offers three types of programs: Fast-track programs that can be completed in one or two quarters, a fast-track program that can be completed by attending one day of class for all four quarters and a full-year program.
However, EIEC will make every effort to put students in contact with each other so that car pooling arrangements may be possible.
While EIEC may recommend students for these positions, they constitute a contractual relationship solely between FHFEC and the student, and are not a part of the EIEC program.
www.equinecollege.org /questions.htm   (1764 words)

  
 Molecular characterization of a multidrug-resistant strain of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli O164 isolated in Japan -- ...
Detection of the invasion plasmid antigen H gene of EIEC.
Black boxes, 5' and 3' conserved sequences; hatched arrows, antibiotic gene cassettes of the dihydrofolate reductase type 12 gene (dfrXII), which confers resistance to trimethoprim, and aminoglycoside adenyltransferase type 2 gene (aadA2), which confers resistance to streptomycin and spectinomycin; hatched circles, the 59-base elements (59-be) of the gene cassettes; white arrow, ORF of unknown function.
EIEC O164 strain RIMD05091045 was investigated for the presence
jmm.sgmjournals.org /cgi/content/full/54/3/273   (2974 words)

  
 (EIEC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
coli (EIEC) were characterised by their positive reaction in the Sereny test, in which strains are tested for their ability to cause keratoconjunctivitis in guinea pig eyes.
This is a characteristic which EIEC share with strains of Shigella.
While these strains comprise only a small proportion of the diarrhoeagenic organisms found in non-tropical countries, they are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, being a common cause of medical consultation for young children, particular in the warmer times of the year.
ecoli.bham.ac.uk /path/enti.html   (224 words)

  
 The king and the god - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A version mostly based on that by E.P. Hamp appears in the EIEC (1997:503), but replacing Hamp's Lughus with Sen's Werunos:
The EIEC spelling largely corresponds to that used in the Proto-Indo-European language article, with h
The EIEC spelling is a more direct result of the reconstruction process but having typologically too many marked features to be a language really spoken some time in that form, while Lehmann represents the position to attain the most probable natural language to show up in reconstruction the way PIE is.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_king_and_the_god   (387 words)

  
 Escherichia coli :: Microbiology and Bacteriology :: The world of microbes
EIEC lack fimbriae and bind to cells using an outer membrane protein.
EIEC mimics another enteric pathogen, Shigella, in the illness it produces and its pathogenic mechanisms; the organisms also share similarity at the DNA sequence level.
EAEC are distinguished from the rest by their ability to attach to tissue culture cells in large groups.
www.bact.wisc.edu /Microtextbook/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=140&page=1   (2774 words)

  
 Molecular Evolutionary Relationships of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella spp. -- Lan et al. 72 (9): 5080 -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Strain names prefixed with M are EIEC and are followed by serotype and biochemical properties for mucate and acetate if negative as M- and A-respectively; for Shigella strains, F denotes S.
to be associated with EIEC (5, 10, 14, 15, 21, 25, 30).
the pathogenesis and epidemiology of Shigella and EIEC infections.
iai.asm.org /cgi/content/full/72/9/5080   (4388 words)

  
 Expression and Characterization of Flagella in Nonmotile Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli Isolated from Diarrhea Cases ...
FBC112/3, FBC136/6, and FBC164/1, all of the EIEC strains were
Immunoblotting of flagellin obtained from EIEC FBC24/45 (O28ac:NM) and reacted with antibodies against heterologous flagellins.
EIEC strains which did not show motility were repeatedly subcultured
iai.asm.org /cgi/content/full/70/10/5882   (2346 words)

  
 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Furthermore, live ST/LA alone increased transepithelial resistance, contrasting markedly with the fall in resistance evoked by EIEC infection, which could also be blocked by live ST/LA. The effect of ST/LA on resistance was accompanied by maintenance (actin, ZO-1) or enhancement (actinin, occludin) of cytoskeletal and tight junctional protein phosphorylation.
EIEC also reduced the ability of EGF to activate its receptor, which was reversed by ST/LA.
Live ST/LA interact with intestinal epithelial cells to protect them from the deleterious effect of EIEC via mechanisms that include, but are not limited to, interference with pathogen adhesion and invasion.
www.osumex.com /IBD1.php   (530 words)

  
 Pathogen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
EIEC closely resemble Shigella in their pathogenic mechanisms and the kind of clinical illness they produce.
EIEC penetrate and multiply within epithelial cells of the colon causing widespread cell destruction.
EHEC are represented by a single strain (serotype O157:H7), which causes a diarrheal syndrome distinct from EIEC (and Shigella) in that there is copious bloody discharge and no fever.
www.ce.berkeley.edu /~nelson/ce210a/E.coli/e.coli.htm   (672 words)

  
 Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in children with diarrhea in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The EHEC strain belonged to serotype O26:H11, and the t-EPEC strain belonged to serotype O142:H34.
The serotype of the EIEC strain could not be determined because it was rough.
The single EIEC strain was motile, a rare characteristic among EIEC strains (Toledo and Trabulsi 1983), and was Sereny negative, possibly due to lost of the INV plasmid after storage.
www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762005000400004&lng=es   (2719 words)

  
 Integron-associated antibiotic resistance in enteroaggregative and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli.
Four EIEC and 15 EaggEC were found to carry a class 1 integron.
An identical integron carrying a single dfrA5 cassette, conferring resistance to trimethoprim, was identified in all four EIEC strains.
Five EaggEC strains harbored an integron with a single cassette, dfrA7, while the remaining 10 strains carried two integrons, one with a single cassette, aadA1a conferring resistance to streptomycin and spectinomycin, and the second one bearing two cassettes, dfrA13 and oxa5, the later being a beta-lactam resistance cassette.
www.findyourhope.com /Article/71538/Page_Article.aspx   (197 words)

  
 Typical Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Is the Most Prevalent Pathotype among E. coli Strains Causing Diarrhea in ...
EIEC, and EHEC were defined as strains having the respective
EIEC, and EAEC were detected in each of three patients.
EIEC was observed in all age groups, with an increasing trend
jcm.asm.org /cgi/content/full/42/1/133   (4449 words)

  
 Selection-driven transcriptome polymorphism in Escherichia coli/Shigella species -- Le Gall et al. 15 (2): 260 -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Shigella and EIEC strains are indicated in gray background.
Because Shigella and EIEC strains are not monophyletic
coli strain (EDL933), the EIEC, and a Shigella
www.genome.org /cgi/content/full/15/2/260   (5564 words)

  
 Chatham Systems Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Company was confident that with the right integration partner, the E.piphany EIEC solution would position it for better customer relationships.
Once the partnership was forged, Chatham Systems was immediately faced with the challenge of integrating the E.piphany EIEC solution with the Company’s equity and fixed income customer information and existing website information.
The E.piphany EIEC solution can now be expanded to campaign management, which would put the Company on the path to target its most valuable customers.
www.chathamsystems.com /company/cs_gic.html   (467 words)

  
 Educational Outcomes
Students who complete all four quarterly programs at EIEC or who receive special permission from the EIEC Director, are eligible to receive Mastery Certificates from EIEC and other certifying Equestrian Organizations.
Gaining employment upon completing EIEC program(s) is neither implied or guaranteed by Eastern Iowa Equestrian College.
The goal of EIEC is to help students prepare for work in equine industry.
www.equinecollege.org /educational_outcomes.htm   (369 words)

  
 eMedicine - Escherichia Coli Infections : Article by Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD
EIEC infections are rare and manifest as bloody diarrheal stool containing PMN leukocytes.
For urinary tract infections, a urine dipstick test may be performed to rapidly determine if the patient has pyuria or bacteriuria based on the detection of leukocyte esterase and nitrites, respectively.
EIEC can be identified based on results from animal pathogenicity tests such as the Sereny test.
www.emedicine.com /med/topic734.htm   (6180 words)

  
 Live probiotics protect intestinal epithelial cells from the effects of infection with enteroinvasive Escherichia coli ...
EIEC invasion was expressed as a percentage of intracellular
interference was assessed by quantitating EIEC invasion in the
EIEC induced a significant increase in basal I
gut.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/52/7/988   (5967 words)

  
 Molecular typing and phylogenetic analysis of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli using the fliC gene se
In this study, we demonstrate the presence of the flagellin-coding fliC gene in non-motile EIEC strains.
Moreover, we were able to group the 11 most common non-motile EIEC serotypes into six different RFLP patterns of the fliC gene.
Sequencing data were used to construct a phylogenetic tree which showed two main clusters: one sharing similarity with Shigella dysenteriae and pathogenic E. coli, and the other being closer to non-pathogenic E. coli.
www.findyourhope.com /Article/18598/Page_Article.aspx   (156 words)

  
 Schedule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
EIEC 281 (Cultural Awareness in the Elementary Classroom
EIEC 352 (Methods and Materials in Teaching Language Arts)
EIEC 631 (Trends in Elementary School Language Arts)
www.sru.edu /depts/Cont_Ed/schedule.htm   (50 words)

  
 Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli virulence-plasmid-carried apyrase (apy) and ospB genes are organized as a bicistronic ...
The 8023 bp PstI fragment of the pINV of EIEC strain HN280 encompasses four genes (ospC4 is a frameshift-inactivated gene; Buchrieser et al.
EIEC strain HN280 was grown in LB medium at 30 °C to an OD of
Falconi, M., Colonna, B., Prosseda, G., Micheli, G. and Gualerzi, C. Thermoregulation of Shigella and Escherichia coli EIEC pathogenicity.
mic.sgmjournals.org /cgi/content/full/148/8/2519   (5546 words)

  
 Food Science Central - Microbial spot the difference - molecular strategies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
cells is sufficient to initiate disease in humans, whereas EIEC strains require a larger infectious dose.
However, because the two species are genetically close and exhibit considerable antigenic cross-reactivity, it can be difficult to differentiate between them using serological methods.
This was based on a multiplex PCR for the amplification of two virulence genes, amplification of the
www.foodsciencecentral.com /fsc/ixid14024   (295 words)

  
 Article: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli: DBMD - WrongDiagnosis.com
EPEC and EIEC primarily infect children in the developing world.
Sequelae of ETEC, EPEC, and EIEC infection are not well described.
International travelers are at greatest risk for ETEC infection, while EPEC and EIEC are most common among young children in the developing world.
www.wrongdiagnosis.com /artic/diarrheagenic_escherichia_coli_dbmd.htm   (355 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
EPEC (Enteropathogenic E. Coli) and Helicobacter pylori Enteroinvasive pathogens: The organisms invade the mucosal epithelial of the bowel and multiply intracellularly and cause histopathologic changes; DO NOT disseminate in body EX.
Shigella and EIEC (Enteroinvasive E. Coli) Organisms penetrate enterocyte, multiply in lamina propria, and cause inflammatory response and appear in mesenteric lymph nodes: EX.
EHEC: Similar to EIEC; produces Shiga toxin and causes hemorrhagic colitis that may lead to hemolytic uremic syndrome.
www.muhealth.org /~md2004/draft4/5-10pathogenesis.doc   (469 words)

  
 Detection and Characterization of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli from Young Children in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Nguyen et al. ...
of EAEC, 17 strains of EIEC, 15 strains of EHEC, 17 strains
the corresponding genes of EAEC, EHEC, EIEC, EPEC, and ETEC
In the case of Shigella spp., it is known that EIEC strains
jcm.asm.org /cgi/content/full/43/2/755   (4165 words)

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