For a study, it was determined that researchers claimed to improve the understanding of the possible consequences of enteric diseases beyond clinical diarrhea. It was acknowledged that growth problems in children can cause infections with many enteropathogens, and systemic and intestinal inflammation may play a vital role. A better knowledge of the long-term effects of ETEC infection was urgently needed as, in the developing world, enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC) was one of the most common causes of diarrhea in children. To find out, the researchers used ETEC strain H10407 in a dose-descending experimental human challenge model to see if ETEC infection causes intestinal and systemic inflammation and the influence on colonization and immune responses to ETEC vaccine-specific antigens. According to a study conducted by researchers, the magnitudes and kinetics of myeloperoxidase (MPO) in stool and intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (an indicator of defective intestinal epithelial integrity) in serum increased significantly following ETEC infection in both diarrhea and asymptomatic cases, indicating that MPO magnitudes. In addition, following an ETEC challenge, serum levels of the cytokines IL-17A and IFN- were dramatically elevated. Moreover, safety from ETEC diarrhea and higher pre-challenge cytokine IL-10 and GM-CSF concentrations were linked. ETEC intestinal colonization and lower colonization factor I antigen seroconversions was associated with higher MPO concentrations, but the reverse was true for heat-labile toxin B-subunit seroconversions. This research had significant implications for comprehending the short and long-term deleterious health consequences of ETEC infection.
Link:www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2021.1891852
