Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Blantyre, Malawi

Philip M Ashton; Zefaniah Joel Katuah; Arnold Botomani; Belson M Kutambe; Nigel A Cunliffe; Astrid von Mentzer; Chisomo Msefula; Khuzwayo C Jere

doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000885.v3

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Blantyre, Malawi

Access Microbiol. 2024 Nov 18;6(11):000885.v3. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000885.v3. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Philip M Ashton^{1

2}, Zefaniah Joel Katuah³, Arnold Botomani³, Belson M Kutambe¹, Nigel A Cunliffe², Astrid von Mentzer⁴, Chisomo Msefula³, Khuzwayo C Jere^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
² Institute of Infection, Veterinary, and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³ Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Abstract

We announce the deposition of the first two enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) genomes from Malawi. They were isolated from the faeces of asymptomatically infected children obtained in 2014. Both genomes encode the porcine variant of the heat-labile toxin and no known ETEC colonization factors.

Keywords: E. coli; diarrhoea; genomics.