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Bacterial aetiology of Diarrhoeal illness of children at Tikrit Teaching Hospital in Tikrit. | ||
| Tikrit Journal of Pure Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 23-27 | ||
| Author | ||
| Huda saleh khuder | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was performed on 406 inpatient complain from diarrhoea. They were introduced to emergenc and paediatric wards in Tikrit Teaching Hospital in Tikrit city from May 2000 to February 2001. The aim of this study is to identify the important of bacterial causative agents of diarrhoeal illness in children aged (1 -60) months. Atotal of five handred and seven causative agents of diarrhoea were isolated and identified . 175 of them were bacterial isolates, from which 35 isolates ( 20% ) from Enterophathogenic Escherichia Coli pool І and 31 isolates (17.7% ) from EPEC pool П . Ten Salmonella typhi ( 5.7% ), 16 S. arizona ( 9.1% ) , and 27 S. typhimurium ( 15.4% ) were isolated . In addition to 18 isolates ( 10.2 % ) of Shigella boydii and 10 isolates ( 5.7% ) of Sh. dysenteriae and one isolate of Sh. sonni ( 0.5% ) . Ten isolates ( 5.7% ) of Aeromonas hydrophila and 8 isolates ( 4.5% ) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and 7 isolates ( 4% ) of Proteus mirabilis were also diagnosed . However , only one isolate of the followings was recovered : Campylobacter jejuni and Yersinia enterocolitica . No Vibrio cholera was isolated or diagnosed during the period of study inspite of the repeated suspected cases investigation.Another causative agents of diarrhoea were parasite ( 25.8%), fungi (20.3%) and virus (19.3%). | ||
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