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. 1988 Apr 15;138(8):714–717.

Prévalence d'Aeromonas spp. dans les gastro-entérites de l'enfant.

Prevalence of Aeromonas spp. pediatric gastroenteritis

M Leblanc 1, G Delage 1, E Rousseau 1, O Dobrescu 1, A C Bernard-Bonnin 1
PMCID: PMC1267779  PMID: 3355951

Abstract

A selective medium and biochemical tests were used to search for Aeromonas spp. in the stools of 536 children, more than 90% of whom had "gastroenteritis", seen at Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, in June or July 1986. The organism was found in seven children, six of whom had bloody diarrhea. One of the six, a 6 1/2-year-old boy, required intravenous alimentation and later manifested ulcerative colitis; the other five recovered. The remaining child, a 14-year-old boy, had synovitis of the knee and spondylarthritis. Two of the seven carried other enteric pathogens. The authors discuss the pathogenicity of Aeromonas spp., which is not very marked in temperate climates, in human summer diarrhea and its possible role in the development of ulcerative colitis.

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