Bacterial diarrhoeas in Jos, Nigeria
| Autor: | Toshiyuki Takahashi, Motohisa Takahashi, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Agatha Ani, Haruo Saida, Maroto Sato |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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| Zdroj: | Japanese Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 20:283-290 |
| ISSN: | 2186-1811 0304-2146 |
| DOI: | 10.2149/tmh1973.20.283 |
| Popis: | In a 4 year study from October 1983 to March 1987, in Jos, Nigeria, bacterial enteric pathogens were isolated from 27.0% of 1, 137 children aged 0-5 years who were clinically diagnosed for acute diarrhoea. A similar investigation was also carried out on apparently healthy children of primary school age (7-16 years), who were on regular school attendance. Eight different primary schools located in the urban and rural areas of Jos, were selected for this phase of the study. The 1, 468 children examined in the latter group had a total infection rate of 11.9%. Though the children were considered to be apparently healthy, 25.6% of them reported a history of diarrhoea, lasting between 1-21 days; 12.7% of these were bacterial positive as opposed to 11.6% for the non diarrhoeal group.In yet a third phase of the study, a total of 39 different households, predominantly of adult population were investigated for the presence of common organisms among members of the same family. Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) serovar 0128 : K67 was isolated from 4 of 14 members of one family, while EPEC serovar 028 : K73 was isolated from 3 of 7 members of another family including 2 cases of multiple infections.Some of the 48 strains of EPEC out of 130 isolates, although H antigen was not examined, could possibly belong to EHEC (VTEC : verocyto-toxin producing E. coli) which are thought to be one of the causative agents of haemorrhagic diarrhoeae as well as hemolytic uremic syndrome which are severe illnessess. |
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