EAEC as a cause of diarrhea in AIDS patients
The role of EAEC as an important pathogen in AIDS patients continues to develop, and EAEC now ranks among the most important enteric pathogens in this sub-population (Wanke et al., 1998a,b). EAEC was reported as the pre-dominant cause of diarrhea among HIV-infected patients in the Central African Republic (Germani et al., 1998). The importance of EAEC in persistent diar-rhea among African AIDS patients was re-emphasized during a study in Senegal (Gassame-Sow et al., 2004). The finding that HIV replication is enhanced by inflammation and activation of NF-
κ
B raises the concern that EAEC-induced inflammation may add to the rapid downward decline of millions of African AIDS patients (Klein et al., 2000)