ABSTRACT
A hospital stool survey of Indonesian children less than 5 years of age determined the prevalence of diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and other bacterial enteropathogens, compared to non-diarrheic control patients. ETEC were the second most frequent cause of diarrhea, isolated from 16 of 194 (8.2%) of patient's stools compared to 2 of 97 (2.1%) of control stools. The highest prevalence was in infants 12 to 23 months of age (17.9%).
Subject(s)
Age Factors , Case-Control Studies , Child, Preschool , Diarrhea/epidemiology , Diarrhea, Infantile/epidemiology , Enterotoxins , Escherichia coli Infections/epidemiology , Feces/microbiology , Humans , Indonesia/epidemiology , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Prevalence , Proportional Hazards ModelsABSTRACT
During an observation period of 20 months (from January 1978 to September 1979) 123 children with clinically suspected salmonellosis were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, 70 males and 53 females varying in age from 17 days to 14 years. S. typhi or S. enteriditis was isolated from the stool, urine, blood or cerebrospinal fluid in 85% (105/123) of the cases. The results of the microbiologic examination showed that 28 out of the 105 cases (27%) were resistant to chloramphenicol of which the S. sero-group C1 was predominant. It appeared that 28 cases conformed to the clinical data. In all these cases chloramphenicol was replaced by other antibiotics according to the sensitivity test. The mortality rate was 7% (9/123). Four of the fetal cases were from the chloramphenicol resistant group.
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Adolescent , Animals , Child , Child, Preschool , Chloramphenicol/therapeutic use , Drug Resistance, Microbial , Female , Humans , Indonesia , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Salmonella Infections/drug therapy , Salmonella enteritidis/drug effects , Salmonella typhi/drug effects , Typhoid Fever/drug therapyABSTRACT
During a 21-month period from April 1974 to February 1976, 948 children with gastroenteritis were studied. Aetiologic agents were identified in 43% of these patients. Isolates were identified as follows: V. cholera El Tor, 273 (67%); Salmonella enteritidis, 64 (16%); enteropathogenic E. coli, 28 (7%); Shigella, 28 (7%); Vibrio (NAG), 9 (2%): and V. parahaemolyticus, 7,2%). Gastroenteritis with dehydration is a serious continuing pediatric problem in Jakarta, constituting 30% of admissions to Sumber Waras hospital. The incidence of both cholera and salmonellosis increased during the past 2 years, as judged by the distribution of enteric bacteria isolated from the rectal swabs of gastroenteritis patients in Sumber Waras hospital.