| [bacteriological and virological studies on the cause of sporadic acute gastroenteritis in tama, tokyo (1991-1996)]. | between may 1991 and december 1996, bacteriological and virological investigations on the fecal samples from patient of infantile diarrhea (155 cases), or infectious gastroenteritis (1,409 cases) diagnosed with 9 medical institutions in tama of tokyo were carried out. of 1,564 samples, 722 (46.2%) were enteropathogen positive cases, and mixed infection was also observed in about 15% of the positive cases. among 13 different kinds of enteropathogens identified, the most prevalent one was pathogen ... | 1998 | 9695470 |
| incidence and clinical symptoms of aeromonas-associated travellers' diarrhoea in tokyo. | in a survey examining the causes of travellers' diarrhoea treated in tokyo between july 1986 and december 1995, aeromonas species were isolated from 1265 (5.5%) of 23,215 travellers returning from developing countries. aeromonas species were the fourth most frequent enteropathogen isolated, following enterotoxigenic e. coli (8.5%), salmonella spp. (7.6%) and plesiomonas shigelloides (5.6%). aeromonas species were found in 1191 (5.6%) of 21,257 patients with diarrhoea and in 74 (3.8%) of 1958 hea ... | 1997 | 9363009 |