title: [Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis strains (ETBF) in the gut of children with clinical diagnosis of antibiotic associated diarrhoea (AAD)].
abstract: Prevalence of enterotoxin producing Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) strains in faecal samples of children with clinical diagnosis antibiotic associated diarrhoea (AAD) was investigated. Out of faecal samples collected from sixty children, thirty C. difficile strains were isolated. Enterotoxigenic B. fragilis (ETBF) strains were cultured from four children what made 6.7% of investigated faecal samples. Out of two samples toxinogenic C. difficile strains [tox A(+) tox B(+)] were cultured together with enterotoxinogenic B. fragilis. From sample of one child C. difficile A negative/B positive strains [tox A(-) tox B(+)] was found together with B. fragilis (ETBF). From faecal sample of one child enterotoxinogenic B. fragilis only was isolated. It was shown that in the gut of children with clinical diagnosis of (AAD) enterotoxinogenic B. fragilis (ETBF) can be present. B. fragilis (ETBF) can be observed in concomitance with toxinogenic C. difficile.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Mikrobiologii Lekarskiej AM w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pituch
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Obuch-Woszczatyński
authors.forename: Felicja
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meisel-Mikołajczyk
authors.forename: MirosŁaw
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Łuczak
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001441:Bacteroides fragilis / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000382:microbiology*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000378:metabolism; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004768:Enterotoxins