Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis in children with diarrhea in Japan.
In age-matched controlled studies performed in Japan, enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis was isolated from 14.9% of 114 children aged 1 to 14 years with antibiotic-unassociated diarrhea (AUD) and 6.5% of 108 children aged 1 to 6 years with antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). The difference in comparison with control children, was significant for AUD children but not AAD children.
Kato
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Institute of Anaerobic Bacteriology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan. nk19@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
Liu
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Kato
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Watanabe
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Nakamura
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Iwai
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Ueno
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D000260:Adenoviruses, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001442:Bacteroides Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D001441:Bacteroides fragilis / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002460:Cell Line; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification