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SUBMITTER: Rahouma A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3110355 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20110601 6
Stool samples from children < 5 years of age with diarrhea (N = 239) were examined for enteric pathogens using a combination of culture, enzyme-immunoassay, and polymerase chain reaction methods. Pathogens were detected in 122 (51%) stool samples; single pathogens were detected in 37.2% and co-pathogens in 13.8% of samples. Norovirus, rotavirus, and diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) were the most frequently detected pathogens (15.5%, 13.4%, and 11.2%, respectively); Salmonella, adenovirus, an ...[more]