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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1998, p. 1433-1435, Vol. 36, No. 5
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Association of Providencia alcalifaciens with Diarrhea in Children

M. John Albert,* A. S. G. Faruque, and D. Mahalanabisdagger

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Received 2 September 1997/Returned for modification 7 November 1997/Accepted 20 January 1998

It has been demonstrated in previous studies that Providencia alcalifaciens can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study, P. alcalifaciens was isolated from the stool specimens of 17 of 814 diarrheal children younger than 5 years of age (2.1%) and from those of 4 of 814 matched controls (0.49%) (P = 0.004), indicating that the organism is significantly associated with diarrhea. However, 71% of P. alcalifaciens-positive diarrheal children had simultaneous infections with other recognized enteric pathogens.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory Sciences Division, ICDDR,B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Phone: 880 2 602440. Fax: 880 2 872529 or 883116. E-mail: albert{at}icddrb.org.

dagger Present address: Society for Applied Research, Block CF, Bidhan Nagar, Salt Lake, Calcutta 64, India.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1998, p. 1433-1435, Vol. 36, No. 5
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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