PPT1 EnteroInvasive E. coli (EIEC)

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What is the EIEC?

EnteroInvasive E Coli = EIEC

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What characteristic of EIEC type E coli. differentiates it from the other E. coli ?

Remember that E. coli is MOTILE

EIEC is NOT MOTILE

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What chemical characteristic of EIEC type E. coli also differentiates it from most other E. coli?

Non-lactose fermenting

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EIEC illness is similar to which organism?

Shigella

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What are the typical clinical features of EIEC?

DYSENTRY

remember this is BLOODY and Mucous diarrhe@

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What is the mechanism of infection by EIEC?

INVADING epithelial cells of intestine causing breaking of cells (DYSENTRY)