| a survey of plesiomonas shigelloides from aquatic environments, domestic animals, pets and humans. | we conducted a survey during the period from 1974 to 1976, to determine the distribution of plesiomonas shigelloides in human faeces, the intestinal contents of cattle, swine, poultry, dogs, cats, fresh water fish, and river water and sludge from wet riverbeds in the vicinity of tokyo. isolation of the organisms was performed by using salmonella-shigella (ss) agar and deoxycholate-hydrogensulphide-lactose (dhl) agar plates. p. shigelloides was isolated from 3 (0.0078%) of 38454 healthy tokyoites ... | 1980 | 7358962 |
| incidence and clinical symptoms of aeromonas-associated travellers' diarrhoea in tokyo. | in a survey examining the causes of travellers' diarrhoea treated in tokyo between july 1986 and december 1995, aeromonas species were isolated from 1265 (5.5%) of 23,215 travellers returning from developing countries. aeromonas species were the fourth most frequent enteropathogen isolated, following enterotoxigenic e. coli (8.5%), salmonella spp. (7.6%) and plesiomonas shigelloides (5.6%). aeromonas species were found in 1191 (5.6%) of 21,257 patients with diarrhoea and in 74 (3.8%) of 1958 hea ... | 1997 | 9363009 |