%0 Journal Article
%T Enteropathogens associated with diarrheal disease in infants of poor urban areas of Porto Velho, Rond nia: a preliminary study
%A Orlandi Patr¨ªcia Puccinelli
%A Silva Tatiane
%A Magalh£¿es Gleiciene Felix
%A Alves Fabiana
%J Mem¨®rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
%D 2001
%I Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Minist¨¦rio da Sa¨²de
%X One hundred and thirty cases of diarrhea and 43 age-matched controls, 0 to 5 years old, were studied in a pediatric outpatient unit from a poor peri urban area of Porto Velho, Rond nia. Eighty percent of diarrheal cases were observed in the groups under 2 years of age. Rotavirus (19.2%) was the most frequent enteropathogen associated with diarrhea, followed by Shigella flexneri (6.15%) and S. sonnei (1.5%) and Salmonella sp. (6.9%). Four cases of E. coli enterotoxigenic infections (3.1%), E. coli enteropathogenic (EPEC)(2.3%) one case of E. coli enteroinvasive infection (0.8%) and one case of Yersinia enterocolitica (0.8%) were also identified. Mixed infections were frequent, associating rotavirus, EPEC and Salmonella sp. with Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia.
%K diarrheal disease
%K enteropathogens
%K rotavirus infections
%K epidemiology
%K Rond nia
%K Brazil
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