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[Infantile diarrheal diseases in Madagascar: bacterial, parasitologic and viral study]
A M Cassel-Beraud1, J Morvan, D R Rakotoarimanana
1Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Tananarive.
Abstract:
From November 1988 to October 1989, an etiological study showed off the prevalence and the part of several enteropathogen agents which are not yet studied in MADAGASCAR. 1,523 stool's samples from 884 children with diarrhea and 639 children without diarrhea from 0 to 14 years old have been investigated. A bacterial, parasitical or viral etiology was found from 36.3% of diarrheic children and 11.2% of healthy children. The three agents the most frequently identified from children with diarrhea are EPEC (10.5%), Campylobacter jejuni (10.3%) and rotavirus (10%) and associations of two or three pathogen agents are frequent (6.2%).
Insights
This study investigated enteropathogen prevalence in Madagascar, finding EPEC, Campylobacter jejuni, and rotavirus were common causes of childhood diarrhea. Mixed infections were also frequent among affected children.
Area of Science:
- Medical Microbiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Pediatrics