Occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic children in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Campylobacter jejuni was looked for in the feaces of 262 children, beeing 189 with acute diarrhoea, 31 with chronic diarrhoea and 42 controls. The organism was isolated from 14 (7.4%), 2 (6.5%) and 6 (14.3%) of the children, and each group, respectively.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heriberto Fernandez, M. Regina F. Toledo, Ulysses Fagundes Neto, Luiz R. Trabulsi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1985-04-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651985000200009&lng=en&tlng=en