Abstract

LAIN MIRANDA, E.; RUIZ ALIENDE, S.; MARNE TRAPERO, C.  and  REVILLO PINILLA, M. J.. Bacterial gastroenteritis in an area of Zaragoza (Spain). Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.65, pp.29-35. ISSN 1139-7632.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1139-76322015000100005.

Objective: acute gastrointestinal infections are one of the most frequent infectious diseases in primary health care. Implication of microorganisms is variable in different geographical areas, according to seasonal period and population studied. The aim is to study retrospectively the stool cultures and the Clostridium difficile toxin A/B performed from 2010 to 2012 in the Hospital Miguel Servet (Zaragoza, Spain) of paediatric patients from the area II of Zaragoza. Materials and methods: 24058 faeces were received for culture (46.6% from children) and 4132 faeces for toxin investigation (3.4%from children). Results: 9.6% of the stool cultures were positive for one or more enteropathogen bacteria (14.8% from adults and 5.1% from children). Five percent of the toxin investigations were positive (8.6% from children and 4.9 % from adults). Conclusions: The bacteria most frequently isolated in both adults and children were Campylobacter (49.9% of the positives in children and 37.1% in adults) and Salmonella (33.8% of the positives in children and 32.9% in adults). The most frequent serotype of Salmonella was Salmonella enteritidis and the most frequent species of Campylobacter was Campylobacter jejuni.

Keywords : Gastroenteritis; Diarrhoea; Enteropathogen.

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