Richardson N J, Koornhof H J, Bokkenheuser V D, Mayet Z, Rosen E U
Arch Dis Child. 1983 Aug;58(8):616-9. doi: 10.1136/adc.58.8.616.
In a year long prospective study of diarrhoea in children under 2 years of age in Soweto, South Africa, Campylobacter jejuni was isolated in 18 of 60 children under 9 months of age with diarrhoea, compared with 4 of 60 age matched controls. In the older children, 16 of 51 children with diarrhoea and 17 of 51 control children excreted this organism in their faeces. These results indicate a change in susceptibility to C jejuni in children over 9 months of age. Campylobacter enteritis in the young children was usually mild, without macroscopic blood in the faeces, and prolonged excretion of the organism after acute attacks was not infrequent. Breast feeding did not seem to protect against colonisation with C jejuni.
在南非索韦托针对2岁以下儿童腹泻进行的为期一年的前瞻性研究中，60名9个月以下腹泻儿童中有18名分离出空肠弯曲菌，而60名年龄匹配的对照儿童中只有4名分离出该菌。在年龄较大的儿童中，51名腹泻儿童中有16名以及51名对照儿童中有17名粪便中排出了这种微生物。这些结果表明，9个月以上儿童对空肠弯曲菌的易感性发生了变化。幼儿的弯曲菌肠炎通常症状较轻，粪便中无肉眼可见的血液，急性发作后该菌长时间排泄的情况并不少见。母乳喂养似乎不能预防空肠弯曲菌的定植。
