TY - JOUR AU - Zhou, Yu AU - Zhu, Xuhui AU - Hou, Hongyan AU - Lu, Yanfang AU - Yu, Jing AU - Mao, Lie AU - Mao, Liyan AU - Sun, Ziyong PY - 2018 DA - 2018/02/01 TI - Characteristics of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among children under 5 years of age with acute diarrhea: a hospital based study JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 63 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Diarrhea is the leading infectious cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Among bacterial agents, diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) is the major causal agent of childhood diarrhea in developing countries, particularly in children under the age of 5 years. Here, we performed a hospital-based prospective study to explore the pathotype distribution, epidemiological characteristics and antibiotic resistance patterns of DEC from < 5-year-old diarrheal children. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2936-1 DO - 10.1186/s12879-017-2936-1 ID - Zhou2018 ER -