Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli are not a significant cause of diarrhoea in hospitalised children in Kuwait |
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| Authors: | M John Albert Vincent O Rotimi Rita Dhar Susan Silpikurian Alexander S Pacsa A Majid Molla and Gyorgy Szucs |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait;(2) Department of Laboratory Medicine, Farwaniya Hospital, Farwaniya, Kuwait;(3) Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait |
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| Abstract: | Background The importance of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) infections in the Arabian Gulf including Kuwait is not known. The prevalence of DEC (enterotoxigenic ETEC], enteropathogenic
EPEC], enteroinvasive EIEC], enterohemorrhagic EHEC] and enteroaggregative EAEC]) was studied in 537 children ≤ 5 years
old hospitalised with acute diarrhoea and 113 matched controls from two hospitals during 2005–07 by PCR assays using E. coli colony pools. |
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