Volume 55, Issue 6 (1 1997)                   Tehran Univ Med J 1997, 55(6): 22-29 | Back to browse issues page

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Salary M. Enteropathogenic bacteria isolated from specimens of patients with diarrhea. Tehran Univ Med J 1997; 55 (6) :22-29
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Acute infectious gastroenteritis is one of the most common infectious diseases of humans in the world. Diarrheal disease still ranks very high as a major cause of illness and death especially in developing nations. This study has been carried out to investigate enteropathogenic bacteria isolated from 2517 specimens of patients with diarrhea. The results obtained are as follow: Salmonella typhimurium: 6 cases 3.1 percent, Salmonella havana: 5 cases 2.6 percent, Shigella dysenteriae: 12 cases 6.2 percent, Shigella flexneri: 26 cases 13.5 percent, Shigella boydii: 8 cases 4.1 percent, Shigella sonnei: 24 cases 12.4 percent, Enteropathogenic E.coli: 11 cases 5.7 percent, Enteroinvasive E.coli: 2 cases 1 percent, Yersinia enterocolitica: - cases - percent, Vibrio cholera: - cases - percent, Aeromonas hydrophila: 6 cases 3.1 percent, Plesiomonas shigelloides: 1 cases 0.5 percent, Toxigenic C.difficile: 36 cases 18.7 percent, Enterotogenic c.perfringens: 6 cases 3.1 percent, Campylobacter jejuni: 50 cases 25.9 percent.
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