| microbiological agents associated with childhood diarrhoea in the dry zone of sri lanka. | between march and july, 1987, faecal specimens from 371 diarrhoeal children reporting to four hospitals in the district of kurunegala, sri lanka and from 121 controls with other diseases were investigated for enteric pathogens. all specimens were tested for shigella spp, salmonella spp and enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec). in addition, parasitic pathogens, heat labile enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec lt), campylobacter and rotavirus were sought among subsamples of the cases and con ... | 1990 | 2187225 |
| prevalence of salmonella in marketed penaeus monodon shrimps in north western province, sri lanka. | the examination of a total of 180 samples from both captured and cultured shrimps from sri lanka for the presence of salmonella revealed an overall prevalence of 12.8%. the prevalence of salmonella in captured shrimps and cultured shrimps was 14.4% and 11.1% respectively, but thedifference was not statistically significant (p = 0.66). the serovar most frequently isolated was s. newport (47.8% of the isolates), followed by s. weltevreden (8.7%). | 2008 | 19086691 |