A 15-YEAR STUDY OF THE ROLE OF AEROMONAS SPP IN GASTROENTERITIS IN HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN
A 15-YEAR STUDY OF THE ROLE OF AEROMONAS SPP IN GASTROENTERITIS IN HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1099/00222615-37-5-315
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发表时间：
1992-11-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
BOLDUR, I
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作者：
GLUSKIN, I;BATASH, D;BOLDUR, I
During a 15-year period, 146 strains of Aeromonas spp. were isolated from 32810 faecal specimens from 13820 hospitalised patients up to 13 years of age. These isolates constituted 4 % of all the pathogenic bacterial strains cultured. For the years 1978-1988, the files of children with gastro-enteritis revealed 81 whose faeces yielded Aeromonas spp. Most of them (94 %) were < 3 years of age, 78 % < 1 year old. The peak incidence was at 2-6 months, involving severe morbidity including dehydration and vomiting with acidaemia and azotaemia; the mean duration of illness and length of hospitalisation at this age were longer than at other ages. Bloody diarrhoea was found in 7 % of the children. Almost all the strains of Aeromonas were resistant to ampicillin. We conclude that Aeromonas spp. are of aetiological significance in gastro-enteritis in small children; culture for this pathogen should be routine in the bacteriological examination of faeces.
