%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
%A Patr¨ªcia Puccinelli
%A Silva
%A Tatiane
%A Magalh£¿es
%A Gleiciene Felix
%A Alves
%A Fabiana
%A Cunha
%A Roberto Penna de Almeida
%A Durlacher
%A Rui
%A Silva
%A Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da
%J Mem¨®rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
%D 2001
%I Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Minist¨¦rio da Sa¨²de
%R 10.1590/S0074-02762001000500005
%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.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0074-02762001000500005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en