[Infantile digestive campylobacteriosis. Two case studies (author's transl)]

The role played by Campylobacter jejuni in the origin of infantile bacterial gastroenteritis is important. Diarrhea, often bloody, is dysentery-like. Fever, abdominal pain and vomiting are rarely lacking. Dehydration is exceptional. Spontaneous recovery occurs in about ten days. Campylobacter jejuni is a Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, microaerophilic bacillus. The often typical results of direct morphological examination of the stools, special culture and isolation techniques, the erythromycine sensitivity of the germ, clearly define campylobacteriosis. Its epidemiology is still being investigated.