| chronic diarrhea among adults in kigali, rwanda: association with bacterial enteropathogens, rectocolonic inflammation, and human immunodeficiency virus infection. | one hundred patients with chronic diarrhea were seen in the department of internal medicine at the centre hospitalier de kigali, rwanda; stool and/or rectal swab culture was performed for these patients, and they underwent rectoscopy and serological testing for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1). enteropathogenic bacteria were isolated from 39 (39%) of the patients: shigella species (22 of 100 patients tested), non-typhi salmonella (11/100), aeromonas species (5/60), and campylobacter s ... | 1995 | 8589155 |