| 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 |
| occurrence of plesiomonas shigelloides--associated diarrhoea in calabar, nigeria. | the prevalence, clinical profiles and virulence factors of plesiomonas shigelloides were determined in patients attending the university of calabar teaching hospital, microbiology laboratory. p. shigelloides was isolated from 12 (1.4%) of 880 patients with diarrhoea and from none of the controls (p less than 0.05). isolates were mostly from febrile children less than or equal to 10 years with most of the infections occurring during the rainy months. although our findings suggest the significance ... | 1991 | 1756708 |