Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection is an intestinal infectious disease caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. ETEC is a group of diarrhea-causing Escherichia coli recently discovered in the stool of human cholera-like patients. It is one of the main pathogens of diarrhea in infants and travelers in developing countries, and its incidence rate is second only to rotavirus. In Bangladesh, diarrhea caused by ETEC accounts for 30% to 60% of all diarrhea, forming a regional epidemic. The disease was first discovered in China in 1982.