RESUMO
A cross-sectional hospital-based study was carried out at Tikrit teaching hospital, Iraq, from October 2004 to September 2005, to identify the prevalence and etiology of nosocomial infectious diarrhoea among children under 5 years of age. Of 259 children admitted to the paediatric ward for reasons other than diarrhoea and hospitalized for more than 3 days, clinical and laboratory analysis of stool samples showed nosocomial diarrhoea in 84 children (32.4%). The most common causative agents were enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (25.9%), Clostridium difficile (21.0%) and rotavirus (18.5%). Single infectious agents caused 63.1% of the cases, while mixed infections were detected in 16.7%; in 20.2% of children the cause remained unknown.
Assuntos
Infecções por Clostridium/complicações , Infecção Hospitalar , Diarreia , Infecções por Escherichia coli/complicações , Hospitais de Ensino , Infecções por Rotavirus/complicações , Distribuição por Idade , Causalidade , Pré-Escolar , Clostridioides difficile , Infecção Hospitalar/epidemiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/etiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/microbiologia , Estudos Transversais , Diarreia/epidemiologia , Diarreia/microbiologia , Escherichia coli Enteropatogênica , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Controle de Infecções , Iraque/epidemiologia , Tempo de Internação/estatística & dados numéricos , Masculino , Prevalência , Distribuição por SexoRESUMO
A cross-sectional hospital-based study was carried out at Tikrit teaching hospital, Iraq, from October 2004 to September 2005, to identify the prevalence and etiology of nosocomial infectious diarrhoea among children under 5 years of age. Of 259 children admitted to the paediatric ward for reasons other than diarrhoea and hospitalized for more than 3 days, clinical and laboratory analysis of stool samples showed nosocomial diarrhoea in 84 children [32.4%]. The most common causative agents were enteropathogenic Escherichia coli [25.9%], Clostridium difficile [21.0%] and rotavirus [18.5%]. Single infectious agents caused 63.1% of the cases, while mixed infections were detected in 16.7%; in 20.2% of children the cause remained unknown
