| etiological agents of infectious diarrhea: implications for requests for microbial culture. | gastrointestinal infections remain a frequent disease worldwide. in order to increase our knowledge of the epidemiology for our patient population, we retrospectively analyzed the results obtained for stool samples received at the clinical microbiology laboratory of the university hospital of geneva during a 4-year period. a total of 13,965 specimens from 7,124 patients (1.96 specimens per patient) were cultured, yielding 369 (2.6%) salmonella spp., 408 (2.9%) campylobacter spp., and 79 (0.6%) s ... | 1997 | 9163457 |