Publications

salmonella responsible for infantile gastroenteritis in mosul, iraq.	the aetiological role of salmonella in acute diarrhoeal illness in infants aged between 4 weeks and 7 years admitted to the mosul paediatric hospital (north iraq) was studied. patients consisted of 63 males and 48 females. almost all (18) salmonella positive cultures were isolated from patients under 2 years old who comprised 84 (75.6%) of the total sample. a wide variety of species of salmonella were found with salm. typhimurium and salm. worthington predominating. most of the strains were sens ...	1988	3204646
isolation of yersinia spp. from cases of diarrhoea in iraqi infants and children.	all 250 children presenting with diarrhoea at 2 teaching hospitals in mosul, iraq over a 9-month period were studied for the presence of yersinia spp. in stools by cold-enrichment culture at 4 degrees c for 21 days. pathogenicity of the isolated yersinia was determined. antibodies to y. enterocolitica were raised for rapid yersinia detection in the stool. yersinia spp. were isolated from the stools of only 4 patients; 3 isolates were identified as y. enterocolitica and 1 was y. pseudotuberculosi ...	2009	19554973