Listeria monocytogenes is a known cause of gastroenteritis. Invasive disease can follow bacteremia causing meningoencephalitis, endocarditis and spontaneous miscarriages in immunocompromised patients and pregnant women respectively. We present the first case in England of endogenous endophthalmitis caused by L. monocytogenes following acute gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host. A 50-year-...

*Corresponding Author Abstract Aim: To assess adherence to local guidelines on the investigation of children admitted with acute gastroenteritis. Method: Children admitted to Mater Dei Hospital with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis between December 2012 and February 2013 were selected. Their investigations were retrospectively assessed in relation to the degree of dehydration and the type of mana...

Tropheryma whipplei, which causes Whipple disease, is found in human feces and may cause gastroenteritis. To show that T. whipplei causes gastroenteritis, PCRs for T. whipplei were conducted with feces from children 2-4 years of age. Western blotting was performed for samples from children with diarrhea who had positive or negative results for T. whipplei. T. whipplei was found in samples from ...

Abstract Background Campylobacter jejuni (C. ) is a leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in human worldwide. The aim study was to assess the distribution sialylated lipooligosaccharide (LOS) classes and capsular genotypes C. isolated from Iranian children with gastroenteritis. Furthermore, level dnaK gene expression strains selected LOS intended. Moreover, comprehensive MLST-genotypes inclusi...

Background. The cumulative annual statistics of rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis are about 25 million outpatient visits, 2 hospitalizations, and 180,000–450,000 deaths in children under 5 years age.
 Aim: To analyze the manifestations complications rotavirus compared with non-rotavirus UK children.
 Materials methods. A retrospective hospital-based case-control study was conducted...