Aetiology of acute paediatric gastroenteritis in Bulgaria during summer months: prevalence of the viral infections.

Aetiology of acute paediatric gastroenteritis in Bulgaria during summer months: prevalence of the viral infections. J Med Microbiol. 2015 Jan 16; Authors: Mladenova Z, Steyer A, Steyer AF, Ganesh B, Petrov P, Tchervenjakova T, Iturriza-Gomara M Abstract Paediatric acute gastroenteritis is a global public health problem.Comprehensive laboratory investigation for viral, bacterial and parasitic agents is helpful for improving management of acute gastroenteritis in health care settings and for monitoring and controlling the spread of these infections.Our study aimed to investigate the role of various pathogens in infantile diarrhoea in Bulgaria outside the classical winter epidemics of rotavirus and norovirus.Stool samples from 115 hospitalized children aged 0-3 years collected during summer months were tested for presence of 14 infectious agents - group A rotavirus, astrovirus, Gardia,Cryptosporidium and Entamoeba using ELISAs; norovirus by real-time RT-PCR; picobirnavirus and sapovirus by RT-PCR; adenovirus using PCR, and Salmonella,Shigella,E.coli,Yersinia and Campylobacter using standard bacterial cultures.Infectious origin was established in a total of 92 cases, and 23 samples remained negative. A single pathogen was found in 67 stools, of which rotaviruses were the most prevalent (56.7%),followed by noroviruses (19.4%),enteric adenoviruses (7.5%),astroviruses (6.0%),bacteria and parasites (4.5% each) and sapoviruses (1.4%). Rotavir...
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research