Prospective study of enteric Campylobacter infections in children from birth to 6 months in the Central African Republic.

AUTOR(ES)

Georges-Courbot, M C

RESUMO

A survey of enteric Campylobacter infections was performed in Bangui, Central African Republic, with a cohort of 127 children from birth to 6 months of age by biweekly culture of stools; 82 infections were observed, and 41.7% of the children presented at least 1 infection before 6 months of age. Only 15.9% of the infected children had a diarrheic syndrome; moreover, 61.5% of these diarrheic children had another enteropathogen associated with Campylobacter species. In about half the cases, Campylobacter spp. were excreted for more than 4 days. More than half of the children had at least one diarrheic episode, for which an enteropathogen was identified in one third of the cases, before 6 months of age.

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