commonest causative organisms of gastroenteritis in El-Minia locality

ABSTRACT

Our study presents bacteriological and parasitic findings together with silent clinical features from a prospective study of 145 children aged less than 6 years with gastroenteritis, attending the pediatrics outpatient clinic of El Minya University hospital. Putative Organisms were identified in the stools of 128 of these children, 23 cases were infected with multiple organisms. Enteropathogenic E.coli was the most frequent Enteropathogen [28.3 percent] followed by Campylobacter [6.9 percent], Klebsiella [3.4 percent], Shigella Spp. [2.8 percent], Salmonella [2.1 percent], Proteus [2.1 percent], Staph aureus [1.4 percent] and Pseudomonas Pyocyanea [1.4 percent]. As regards parasitic infection, Giardia lamblia and E.histolytica were detected in 15.8 percent and 24.1 percent respectively. The prevalence of infectious diarrhea was higher in weaned infants than in breast fed ones