Affiliation:
1. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract
ABSTRACT
It has been demonstrated in previous studies that
Providencia alcalifaciens
can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study,
P. alcalifaciens
was isolated from the stool specimens of 17 of 814 diarrheal children younger than 5 years of age (2.1%) and from those of 4 of 814 matched controls (0.49%) (
P
= 0.004), indicating that the organism is significantly associated with diarrhea. However, 71% of
P. alcalifaciens
-positive diarrheal children had simultaneous infections with other recognized enteric pathogens.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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