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Campylobacter diarrhoea and an association of recent disease with asymptomatic shedding in Egyptian children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. Pazzaglia ,
A. L. Bourgeois ,
K. El Diwany ,
N. Nour ,
N. Badran  and
R. Hablas
G. Pazzaglia*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (Cairo, Egypt), FPO New York, NY 09527
A. L. Bourgeois
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (Cairo, Egypt), FPO New York, NY 09527
K. El Diwany
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
N. Nour
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
N. Badran
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
R. Hablas
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
*
* Address all correspondence to: LCDR G. Pazzaglia, NAMRU-2, APO San Francisco, CA 96356, USA.
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A hospital-based case-control diarrhoea survey was conducted in Cairo. Egypt to determine the age-specific frequency of campylobacter infection among diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic children aged new born to 5 years. Campylobacter was the most common bacterial enteropathogen isolated from diarrhoeic stools. The overall prevalence of campylobacter isolations was 25·9% from stools of 143 diarrhoeic children compared to 15·2% of 132 non-diarrhoeic control children (P = 0·028) during the 4-month period of study. Children less than 1 year of age were at greatest risk of campylobacter infection with 32·6% of diarrhoeic patients culture positive, compared to 14·3% of controls. Asymptomatic shedding in controls was positively associated with a recent diarrhoeal episode (P = 0·019) and may be an important source of new infections.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 77 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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