After a trip to Peru to adopt a 6-month-old baby, a 32-year-old woman and her new baby both develop profuse, watery diarrhea with flecks of mucus. Both are hospitalized because of the severity and rapidity of the dehydration, but neither one is febrile. What is the most likely causative agent?
A) Campylobacter jejuni B) Escherichia coli O157 C) Salmonella typhi D) Vibrio cholerae E) Shigella dysenteriae