title: Clinical features of Aeromonas enteritis in Hawaii.
abstract: The incidence and clinical features of enteritis associated with Aeromonas in Honolulu were studied. The stool isolation rate was 2.9% for Aeromonas, the third most common bacterial pathogen in this population. Clinical features of Aeromonas-associated enteritis were compared with clinical features of enteritis without an associated bacterial pathogen. Although there was a trend toward more abdominal pain, tenderness, nausea and prolonged illness in patients with Aeromonas, these differences were not statistically significant. In most cases, Aeromonas enteritis is a self-limited illness, indistinguishable from other causes of diarrhoea seen in our clinic.
authors.affiliation: Straub Clinic and Hospital, Inc., University of Hawaii-John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Pien
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Leong
mesh_terms: D000333:Aeromonas / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D004751:Enteritis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006254:Hawaii / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors