title: Reovirus-like agent and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infections in pediatric diarrhea in the Philippines.
abstract: Of 82 children hospitalized with diarrhea in the Philippines during January-June 1976, 14 (17%) had infections due to a reovirus-like agent as determined by detection of viral particles in stools by electron microscopy (12 [15%] of 82) and/or by a rise in titer of antibody to the serologically related Nebraska calf diarrhea virus (eight [20%] of 39). Escherichia coli producing heat-labile enterotoxin were found in six (7%) of 82 ill children and two (4%) of 49 healthy control children, while E. coli producing heat-stable enterotoxin were isolated from three children with diarrhea and two without gastroenteritis. Thirty-eight percent of enterotoxigenic E. coli isolated from children with diarrhea, but only 6% of isolates from healthy control, were of serotypes similar to those of enterotoxigenic E. coli isolated in previous studies of these pathogens by other investigators in geographically diverse areas (serotypes O6:H16, O8:H9, and O78:H12) (P less than 0.05). Eight (10%) of the children had infections with multiple enteric pathogens.
mesh_terms: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D010679:Philippines; D012087:Reoviridae; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D004768:Enterotoxins