Enteropathogenic E.coli infection

Intestinal infectious diseases caused by Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC). EPEC is a group of diarrhea-causing Escherichia coli that was recognized in the 1940s. It was the main cause of epidemic diarrhea in infants and young children from the 1950s to the 1960s. It was clinically referred to as indigestion; 1983 exchange of diarrhea experience across the country The symposium decided that the diarrhea caused by EPEC should be called EPEC enteritis instead of indigestion.

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