Enterotoxin-producing bacteria and parasites in stools of Ethiopian children with diarrhoeal disease.

摘要: Enterotoxinogenic bacteria were isolated from 131 (37%) of 354 Ethiopian infants and children with acute gastrointestinal symptoms. Only one these isolates belonged to the classical enteropathogenic serotypes Esch. coli. Two colonies each patient tested for production enterotoxin by rabbit ileal loop test, skin an adrenal cell assay. However, only 38% enterotoxinogenic strains coli; others Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Proteus, Citrobacter, Serratia, Aeromonas. In 18 patients both toxinogenic different species. The incidence intestinal parasites was 35% no apparent correlation occurrence in stools.