| 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 |
| a study of the aetiological agents of childhood diarrhoea in lagos, nigeria. | from december 1989 to may 1990, 315 faecal samples from children under 5 years old with diarrhoea (215) and without diarrhoea (100) seen at paediatric clinics were investigated for bacterial, viral and parasitic enteropathogens. standard and recently described methods were used for the investigations, which revealed that 74.9% of children with diarrhoea were infected with enteropathogens compared with 28% of controls. in the diarrhoeal group, 59.1% had a bacterial, 26.5% a viral and 2.3% a paras ... | 1994 | 8289209 |
| 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 |
| distributional patterns of bacterial diarrhoeagenic agents and antibiograms of isolates from diarrhoeaic and non-diarrhoeaic patients in urban and rural areas of nigeria. | to determine the prevalence of bacteria that could cause diarrhoea in stool specimens of individuals with and without diarrhoea in both urban and rural areas of nigeria. to ascertain the antibiotic susceptibilities of the bacterial diarrhoeagenic agents isolated. to document the predominant signs and symptoms associated with the various bacterial agents of diarrhoea. | 1998 | 10101427 |
| escherichia coli in patients with acute gastroenteritis in lagos, nigeria. | over a period of 12 months, a total of 852 stool samples from patients (both children and adults) with acute diarrhoeal diseases attending some public and government recognised health institutions in lagos metropolis were screened for diarrhoeagenic bacterial agents. one hundred and eighty two bacterial isolates were found out of which 83 (45.6%) were escherichia coli, 38 (20.9%) shigella spp, 31 (17%) salmonella spp, 16 (8.8%) klebsiella spp, eight (4.4%) aeromonas spp, while there were only si ... | 1998 | 10493052 |