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 st...

A bacteriological study was done on the stool of 240 infants and young children. Ninety nine (41 2%) cases were found to be positive for causative agents of gastroenteritis. Stool cultures were positive for bacteria in 40% and for parasite in 1.3% patients. Thirty per cent of the cases had enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), followed by Proteus morganii (47%), Shigella (2.0%), Salmonella (1-6%), P...

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) induces formation of actin pedestals in infected host cells. Agents that inhibit the activity of Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, including Clostridium difficile toxin B (ToxB), compactin, and dominant negative Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, did not inhibit formation of actin pedestals. In contrast, treatment of HeLa cells with ToxB inhibited EPEC invasion. Thus, Rho, Rac, an...

An indirect immunoperoxidase technique has been used to identify enteropathogens in formol-sublimate fixed paraffin embedded sections of calf intestine. Infections with bovine rotavirus, bovine coronavirus, Newbury agent SRV -1, and K99+ Escherichia coli have been detected in the intestines from experimentally infected and conventially reared diarrhoeic or normal calves. The ability to visualiz...

Diarrhoeal diseases were more frequent in male children upto one year of age. The causative agents were bacteria (55%), Rotavirus (30%) and parasites (9%). Of the bacterial group Klebsieila (54%) and Enteropathogenic Esch. coli (EPEC) (34%) were more frequently encountered. None of the 24 strains of Esch. coli were positive for heat labile toxin (LT). Rotavirus diarrhoea was mainly seen in wint...

Background and Aims: One of the major causes of acute diarrhea in children during the cold season in Iran is infection by rotavirus. Children infected with rotavirus often require hospitalization. Several studies on human and animals have shown that enterotoxigenic Escherichia.coli and rotavirus are the most common coinfection causing diarrhea. There are other reports indicating occurrence of r...

This work was conducted to determine the prevalence of E. coli, cryptosporidium spp., giardia, rotavirus and coronavirus agents involved in etiology diarrhea cases neonatal calf detected Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Animal Hospital Clinics other farms region between 2019-2020 years. The material study consisted 50 calves with diarrhea. Stool samples were taken from examined immunochromat...

This study examines the effects of an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli on microvillar membrane proteins during organ culture of rabbit ileal explants. Explants maintained with enteropathogenic E coli showed brush border effacement affecting approximately 50% of enterocytes, and where enteropathogenic E coli were closely adherent to the enterocyte surface microvilli were apparently being shed a...

In this study, it has been our purpose to isolate and serotype enteropathogenic E. coli, salmonella and shigella and determine their resistance to antibiotics. 502 swab specimens were collected during mid-July to midNovember. 1986. from two children's hospitals in Tenran. From 502 cultured specimens. 108 specimens were positive for salmonella. shigella and enteropathogenic E. coli. corresp...