title: Isolation of Campylobacter concisus from feces of children with and without diarrhea.
abstract: A prospective study compared fecal isolation rates of Campylobacter concisus for children with diarrhea and without diarrhea by a filter technique in which media were incubated for 4 days in a microaerobic atmosphere. No statistically significant difference in isolation rates was found (13.2% in patients with diarrhea and 9% in controls). Moreover, 35 of 37 children attending the same day care center harbored different C. concisus strains, as was demonstrated by arbitrary primer PCR DNA fingerprinting. These data suggest a lack of a pathogenic role for C. concisus in enteritis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Akademisch Ziekenhuis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Etterijck
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Breynaert
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Revets
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Devreker
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Vandenplas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lauwers
mesh_terms: D002167:Campylobacter / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial