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Report of a Case Associated With Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and a Toxin-Producing Aeromonas hydrophila

Marc Gurwith, MD, FRCP(C); Christopher Bourque, MD; Eleanor Cameron; Gloria Forrest; Mark Green, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1977;137(10):1461-1464.

Abstract
A 67-year-old Indian patient was admitted with an acute cholera-like illness. Toxigenic Escherichia coli producing both heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins grew from cultures of feces. In addition, an Aeromonas hydrophila producing a cytotoxic toxin was also isolated from this patient's feces. The unusual severity of this patient's illness may have resulted from coinfection with these two toxigenic organisms, although any role of the toxin produced by A hydrophila is speculative.

(Arch Intern Med 137:1461-1464, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba and the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Canada.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 1, 1976.

Reprint requests to Health Sciences Centre, 700 Williams Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E OZ3 (Dr Gurwith).

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