title: [Campylobacter in stool of patients with irritable bowel syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  According to recent studies prevalence of IBS among patients suffered from of acute enteric infection (AEI) reaches 30%, and 25% of them were accounted to Campylobacter infection. We studied the prevalence of Campylobacter in a feces of Russian IBS patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fecal samples received from 39 patients with different types of IBS were studied. Campylobacter were detected by three different methods: culture, real time PCR with the C. jejuni-specific primers and ELISA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 7 patients from 39 reported about AEI in the past. C. jejuni in a stool was found in 2 (5%) patients: in the first patient by all three methods and in second one by PCR only. The first patient noted that she suffered from AEI 30 years ago. After two weeks confirmatory testing was positive only in the first patients, in the second one the tests were negative.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  C. jejuni in a stool was detected in 5% of patients with IBS. Further studies of a microbiota of an intestine in IBS patients using the combination of reliable microbiological and molecular techniques are badly needed.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Burliaeva
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Bulakhov
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Pilipenko
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Isakov
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sheveleva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology