Bacterial flora in malnourished children

ABSTRACT

in an attempt to find out the relation between malnutrition and bacterial flora. This work had been carried out on 40 children 22 of them were manlnourished and 18 control. 280 samples were taken from mouth, ear, nose, skin, anal canal, anterior urethral meatus and conjunctiva of each of them. This study showed that the body flora of malnourished children differs from that of control case at certain sites of isolation with predominance of pathogenic and opportunistic pathogenic organism in malnourished children which may be the source of fulminating infections known to affect these children