Frequency and characteristics of selected enteropathogens in fecal and rectal specimens from childhood diarrhea in Trinidad: 1998-2000 Frecuencia y características de ciertos enteropatógenos en especímenes fecales y rectales obtenidos de niños con diarrea en Trinidad: 1998-2000

• Main Authors: Zobida Khan-Mohammed, Abiodun A. Adesiyun, William H. Swanston, Dave D. Chadee
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2005
• Subjects: Diarrea; infecciones bacterianas; resistencia microbiana a las drogas; Trinidad y Tobago; Diarrhea; bacterial infections; drug resistance; microbial; Trinidad and Tobago; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f2d718b97eb04bc18a5d732d60e468a4

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and characteristics of selected enteric pathogens in diarrheic children in six counties of the island of Trinidad. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted from April 1998 through March 2000. Fecal or rectal swab specimens from children (< 12 years)...