| plasmid screening amongst aeromonas species and plesiomonas shigelloides isolated from subjects with diarrhoea in lagos, nigeria. | fifty-three aeromonas strains and 16 plesiomonas shigelloides isolated from subjects with diarrhoea in lagos were screened for the presence of plasmids. nine (17%) of the aeromonas strains and one (6.3%) of the p. shigelloides harboured one or more plasmids, ranging in size from 2.4 to 16.8 mda. as has been documented in other enteropathogens, the possibilities are that these plasmids code for some factors to enhance the virulence of their hosts. | 1990 | 2128001 |
| occurrence of aeromonas species and plesiomonas shigelloides in patients with and without diarrhoea in lagos, nigeria. | the prevalence of aeromonas spp. and plesiomonas shigelloides was determined in patients attending the enteric laboratory of the department of medical microbiology and parasitology, lagos university teaching hospital, nigeria. during the 12-month study (october 1986-september 1987), aeromonas spp. were isolated from 53 (2.26%) of 2350 patients with diarrhoea and only 2 (0.4%) of 500 patients without diarrhoea (p less than 0.01). similarly, p. shigelloides was isolated from 16 (0.68%) patients wi ... | 1990 | 2342086 |
| enteric bacterial pathogens in stools of residents of urban and rural regions in nigeria: a comparison of patients with and without diarrhoea and controls without diarrhoea. | a total of 2,400 stool samples comprising 1,200 from patients with diarrhoea (600 each from urban and rural area) and 1,200 similarly divided controls were obtained from school children and clinic attendants of government and private clinics around three designated study centres of edo, lagos and cross river states, nigeria. these were screened for the prevalence of bacteria that could cause diarrhoea. diarrhoea cases in urban areas had a high prevalence rate for campylobacter spp. (28%), follow ... | 1997 | 9661320 |