| bacterial and viral causes of acute diarrhoea in children in kuwait. | bacterial and viral causes of acute diarrhoea were studied prospectively for one year in 343 hospitalised young children in kuwait. in 288 (84%) patients, one or more pathogens were identified compared with 12 of 86 (13.9%) children admitted with diseases other than diarrhoea (p less than 0.01). forty-four (12.9%) of the patients were infected with two or more pathogens. viral agents detected in the stools were rotaviruses (40.2%), enteric adenoviruses (1.7%), and enteroviruses (1.5%). enterobac ... | 1989 | 2632640 |
| enumeration of pathogenic bacteria from sewage sludge in kuwait. | domestic sewage in kuwait is mainly treated by an activated sludge process. sewage sludges at different treatment stages and the digested sludge were studied for their content of pathogenic bacteria. two gram-positive cocci and eight gram-negative bacilli were isolated and enumerated in the sewage sludges and in raw sewage. during march, aeromonas hydrophila was the dominant bacterium isolated. serratia liquefaciens in raw sewage and sludge-2, and salmonella species in digested sludge were domin ... | 1987 | 3121985 |
| enumeration and identification of pathogenic bacteria from sewage in kuwait. | mycobacterium spp. was isolated and enumerated in all sewage samples at different stages of the sewage treatment. aeromonas hydrophila, salmonella spp., shigella dysenteriae and others were isolated from both treated and untreated sewage. moreover, the serological identification of salmonella spp. was also done, using antisera specific to their antigenic structures. counts of bacteria in various sewage sludges and effluents tested showed the efficiency of the activated sludge process in reducing ... | 1982 | 7168261 |