Vaishnavi C, Ray P, Thapa B R, Singh K
Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Trop Gastroenterol. 2000 Jan-Mar;21(1):35-6.
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are known to cause infantile enteritis. We studied the prevalence of EPEC in paediatric patients with acute and persistent diarrhoea. A total of 56 stool samples from paediatric patients were studied. There were 28 significant bacterial isolates. Of these 21 were untypable E. coli, 5 were typable E. coli, four of which belonged to members considered to be enteropathogenic. Non E. coli isolates grown in pure culture were one each of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Citrobacter freundi. The study reveals the definitive role of EPEC in childhood diarrhoea at all age groups and emphasizes the need for characterisation of all significant E. coli isolates in this age group.
肠致病性大肠杆菌（EPEC）已知可引起婴儿肠炎。我们研究了急性和持续性腹泻儿科患者中EPEC的流行情况。共研究了56份儿科患者的粪便样本。有28株重要细菌分离株。其中21株为不可分型的大肠杆菌，5株为可分型的大肠杆菌，其中4株属于被认为是肠致病性的成员。在纯培养物中生长的非大肠杆菌分离株分别为铜绿假单胞菌和弗氏柠檬酸杆菌各1株。该研究揭示了EPEC在所有年龄组儿童腹泻中的决定性作用，并强调了对该年龄组所有重要大肠杆菌分离株进行鉴定的必要性。
