| a 5-year study of the bacterial pathogens associated with acute diarrhoea on the island of crete, greece, and their resistance to antibiotics. | during a 5-year period (1995-1999) a total of 7090 stool samples obtained from patients with acute diarrhoea, mostly community-acquired, were examined for bacterial pathogens, in the greek island of crete. one or more enteric pathogens were isolated from 987 patients (14%). salmonella enterica were the most commonly isolated bacteria (6%), followed by campylobacter spp. (4.2%), and enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec) (1.8%). yersinia enterocolitica (0.6%), shigella spp. (0.3%), and aeromona ... | 2003 | 12705628 |
| clostridium difficile in crete, greece: epidemiology, microbiology and clinical disease. | we studied the epidemiology and microbiology of clostridium difficile and the characteristics of patients with c. difficile infection (cdi) in crete in three groups of hospitalized patients with diarrhoea: group 1 [positive culture and positive toxin by enzyme immunoassay (eia)]; group 2 (positive culture, negative toxin); group 3 (negative culture, negative toxin). patients in group 1 were designated as those with definitive cdi (20 patients for whom data was available) and matched with cases i ... | 2016 | 25989816 |