Etiology of acute diarrhea among children in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Marta Inês Cazentini Medeiros²  Suzel Nogueira Neme²  Paulo Da Silva²  Divani Maria Capuano²  Maria Clarice Errera²  Sueli Aparecida Fernandes¹  Glória Reginado Valle¹  Fernando Antonio De Avila¹ 

[1] ,Instituto Adolfo Lutz Laboratório I Ribeirão Preto SP ,Brasil

关键词: Enteropathogens;    Diarrhea;    Children;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652001000100004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

To study the main enteropathogens causing diarrhea in the region of Ribeirão Preto regarding serogroups and serotypes, the feces of 1836 children under 10 years old, from both sexes, attack of acute gastroenteritis, were analysed during a period of 4 years in Adolfo Lutz Institute - Ribeirão Preto, SP. The pathogens identified by standard methods were the following: Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Yersinia spp., and Cryptosporidium spp. Positive samples were 22.8% (419) with 1.7% association of pathogens. Larger isolates were mainly from children 0 to 11 months old. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) was most frequent (8.7%) with predominance of serogroup O119 (40.2%), followed by Shigella (6.2%), 63.6% of which S. sonnei.

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