Diarrheagenic pathogens in Polymicrobial infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 606-611

  Lindsay, Brianna ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^b   Gupta, Sourav Sen ^b   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Rajendran, Krishnan ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Stine, O Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Disease   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AEROMONAS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SAPOVIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FLUVIALIS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953707607     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1704100939     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. World Health Organization. Global burden of disease. Part 2. Causes of death [cited 2011 Feb 8]. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GBD_report_2004update_part2.pdf
2. Nair GB, Ramamurthy T, Bhattacharya MK, Krishnan T, Ganguly S, Saha DR, et al. Emerging trends in the etiology of enteric pathogens as evidenced from an active surveillance of hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata, India. Gut Pathog. 2010;2:4. DOI:10.1186/1757-4749-2-4
3. Mukherjee AK, Chowdhury P, Bhattacharya MK, Ghosh M, Rajendran K, Ganguly S, et al. Hospital-based surveillance of enteric parasites in Kolkata. BMC Res Notes. 2009;2:110. DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-110
4. Nandi B, Nandy RK, Mukhopadhyay S, Nair GB, Shimada T, Ghose AC. Rapid method for species-specifi c identifi cation of Vibrio cholerae using primers targeted to the gene of outer membrane protein OmpW. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:4145-51.
5. Chakraborty R, Sinha S, Mukhopadhyay AK, Asakura M, Yamasaki S, Bhattacharya SK, et al. Species-specifi c identifi cation of Vibrio fl uvialis by PCR targeted to the conserved transcriptional activation and variable membrane tether regions of the toxR gene. J Med Microbiol. 2006;55:805-8. DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46395-0
6. Nguyen TV, Le Van P, Le Huy C, Gia KN, Weintraub A. Detection and characterization of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli from young children in Hanoi, Vietnam. J Clin Microbiol. 2005;43:755-60. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.755-760.2005
7. Pal A, Ghosh S, Ramamurthy T, Yamasaki S, Tsukamoto T, Bhattacharya SK, et al. Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli from healthy cattle in a semi-urban community in Calcutta, India. Indian J Med Res. 1999;110:83-5.
8. Herring AJ, Inglis NF, Ojeh CK, Snodgrass DR, Menzies JD. Rapid diagnosis of rotavirus infection by direct detection of viral nucleic acid in silver-stained polyacrylamide gels. J Clin Microbiol. 1982;16:473-7.
9. Yan H, Yagyu F, Okitsu S, Nishio O, Ushijima H. Detection of norovirus (GI, GII), sapovirus and astrovirus in fecal samples using reverse transcription single-round multiplex PCR. J Virol Methods. 2003;114:37-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2003.08.009
10. Zerpa R, Huicho L. Intestinal coinfection with numerous Giardia trophozoites and Vibrio cholerae in hospitalized children with watery diarrhea. Wilderness Environ Med. 1995;6:167-72.
11. Ljungström I, Holmgren J, Svennerholm AM, Ferrante A. Changes in intestinal fl uid and mucosal immune responses to cholera toxin in Giardia muris infection and binding of cholera toxin to Giardia muris trophozoites. Infect Immun. 1985;50:243-9.
12. Koh H, Baek SY, Shin JI, Chung KS, Jee YM. Coinfection of viral agents in Korean children with acute watery diarrhea. J Korean Med Sci. 2008;23:937-40. DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2008.23.6.937
13. Bilenko N, Levy A, Dagan R, Deckelbaum RJ, El-On Y, Fraser D. Does co-infection with Giardia lamblia modulate the clinical characteristics of enteric infections in young children? Eur J Epidemiol. 2004;19:877-83. DOI: 10.1023/B:EJEP.0000040533.75646.9c
14. Souza EC, Martinez MB, Taddei CR, Mukai L, Gilio AE, Racz ML, et al. Etiologic profi le of acute diarrhea in children in São Paulo [in Portuguese]. J Pediatr (Rio J). 2002;78:31-8. DOI: 10.1590/S0021-75572002000100008
15. Grimprel E, Rodrigo C, Desselberger U. Rotavirus disease-impact of coinfections. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27:S3-10.