[The prevalence of enteropathogens in urban day nurseries].
BACKGROUND
Survey on the intestinal pathogens prevalence in a population of preschool children attending to the urban day-nurseries.


METHODS
Samples of faeces of 408 children and 31 adults, in their charge, were collected. The children were classified per sex, age and kind of day-nursery they were to; data on their physical condition and the faeces characteristics were obtained.


RESULTS
Parasites were the enteropathogens, found with the greatest frequency (21% of children and 19% of adults), next were rotavirus (3% of the children's samples and only one case in adults). The cases of a double parasitization only were 0.74% of the total number of the children surveyed (3 children per each case).


CONCLUSIONS
The highest prevalence of enteropathogens in children attending to the urban day-nurseries in our community belongs to the group of parasites; rotavirus are a much smaller group and bacterium are only isolated cases.
Batista Díaz
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Sección de Bacteriología, Hospital Ntra Sra de Candelaria, Sta Cruz de Tenerife.
López de Lama
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Muñoz Hernaz
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Fernández Vera
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Merino García
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Duque Hernández
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000821:virology; D008297:Male; D010271:Parasites / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015995:Prevalence; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
Prevalencia de enteropatógenos en guarderías urbanas.