| acute bacterial gastroenteritis: a study of adult patients with positive stool cultures treated in the emergency department. | to investigate the presenting clinical features of acute bacterial gastroenteritis in adult patients treated as outpatients in the emergency department (ed), and the pathogens responsible in this setting and population; and to identify the frequency with which positive stool culture result changes management. | 2003 | 12835343 |
| laribacter hongkongensis: a potential cause of infectious diarrhea. | in this study, we describe the isolation of laribacter hongkongensis, a recently described genus and species of bacterium, in pure culture on charcoal cefoperazone deoxycholate agar from the stool of six patients with diarrhea. three patients were residents of hong kong, and three of switzerland. in none of the stool samples obtained from these six patients was salmonella, shigella, enterohemorrhagic escherichia coli, vibrio, aeromonas, plesiomonas, or campylobacter recovered. rotavirus antigen ... | 2003 | 14711474 |
| plesiomonas shigelloides infection in hong kong: retrospective study of 167 laboratory-confirmed cases. | to study the epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological features of plesiomonas shigelloides infection in hong kong. | 2000 | 11177159 |
| biliary tract disease as a risk factor for plesiomonas shigelloides bacteraemia: a nine-year experience in a hong kong hospital and review of the literature. | we report the epidemiology, clinical disease spectrum, treatment, and outcome of plesiomonas shigelloides bacteraemia in our hospital over a nine-year period and compare the characteristics of patients with p. shigelloides bacteraemia in our hospital with those reported in the literature. during the nine-year period (1995--2003), a total of seven patients developed p. shigelloides bacteraemia. all cases occurred during the late spring, summer, and early autumn (may-october). all patients were ov ... | 2005 | 15782626 |