Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis in children with diarrhea in Japan

N Kato; C Liu; H Kato; K Watanabe; H Nakamura; N Iwai; K Ueno

doi:10.1128/JCM.37.3.801-803.1999

Prevalence of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis in children with diarrhea in Japan

J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Mar;37(3):801-3. doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.3.801-803.1999.

Authors

N Kato¹, C Liu, H Kato, K Watanabe, H Nakamura, N Iwai, K Ueno

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Anaerobic Bacteriology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan. [email protected]

Abstract

In age-matched controlled studies performed in Japan, enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis was isolated from 14.9% of 114 children aged 1 to 14 years with antibiotic-unassociated diarrhea (AUD) and 6.5% of 108 children aged 1 to 6 years with antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). The difference in comparison with control children, was significant for AUD children but not AAD children.

MeSH terms

Adenoviruses, Human / isolation & purification
Adolescent
Age Factors
Bacteroides Infections / epidemiology*
Bacteroides Infections / microbiology
Bacteroides fragilis* / classification
Bacteroides fragilis* / isolation & purification
Cell Line
Child
Child, Preschool
Diarrhea / epidemiology
Diarrhea / microbiology*
Humans
Infant
Japan / epidemiology
Prevalence
Rotavirus / isolation & purification