Albert M J, Faruque A S, Mahalanabis D
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka.
J Clin Microbiol. 1998 May;36(5):1433-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.5.1433-1435.1998.
It has been demonstrated in previous studies that Providencia alcalifaciens can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study, P. alcalifaciens was isolated from the stool specimens of 17 of 814 diarrheal children younger than 5 years of age (2.1%) and from those of 4 of 814 matched controls (0.49%) (P = 0.004), indicating that the organism is significantly associated with diarrhea. However, 71% of P. alcalifaciens-positive diarrheal children had simultaneous infections with other recognized enteric pathogens.
先前的研究已证明,产碱普罗威登斯菌可通过侵袭机制导致腹泻。在本研究中,从814名5岁以下腹泻儿童中的17名(2.1%)的粪便标本中分离出产碱普罗威登斯菌,从814名匹配对照中的4名(0.49%)的粪便标本中也分离出该菌(P = 0.004),这表明该菌与腹泻显著相关。然而,71%产碱普罗威登斯菌阳性的腹泻儿童同时感染了其他公认的肠道病原体。