Isolation of Campylobacter concisus from feces of children with and without diarrhea.
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.
Van Etterijck
R
R
Department of Microbiology, Akademisch Ziekenhuis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Breynaert
J
J
Revets
H
H
Devreker
T
T
Vandenplas
Y
Y
Vandamme
P
P
Lauwers
S
S
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
D004269:DNA, Bacterial