title: Campylobacter diarrhoea and an association of recent disease with asymptomatic shedding in Egyptian children.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (Cairo, Egypt), FPO New York, NY 09527.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pazzaglia
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: el Diwany
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nour
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Badran
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hablas
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002167:Campylobacter / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015995:Prevalence; D012621:Seasons