PATHOGENCITY

1)      Major it causes the urinary tract infection.

2)      Gastroenteritis

3)      In infants it causes the Meningitis.

4)      Diarrhea caused by the following group of E.Coli:

a.       Traveller’s diarrhea                                               (Enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC)

b.      Dysentery                                                             (Enteroinvasive E.coli (EIEC)

c.       Infantile diarrhea                                                 (Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC)

d.      Haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children           (EnterohaemorrhagicE.coli(EHEC,

0157: H7)

e.       Diarrhea                                                                (Diffuse adherent E.coli (DAEC)

f.       Chronic diarrhea                                                (Enteroaggregative E.coli (EAggEC)

g.      Diarrhea                                                                (Diffuse adherent aggregative-adherent      

E.coli(DAAA)

They are all diagnose and identified by production of agglutination with commercially available Antisera.(Monica2000)