Prospective study of nosocomial enteric infections in a pediatric hospital, Calcutta.

Abstract:

:Hospital acquired enteric infections were investigated by studying 3138 children under 5 years of age who were admitted without diarrhea in nine medical words of a pediatric hospital, Calcutta during the period between March and September 1987. Three hundred and twenty (10.2%) children developed nosocomial diarrhea during their hospital stay. Fecal samples from 178 nosocomial diarrhea, 345 hospitalized diarrhea cases, 178 hospital controls and 200 outpatient controls were collected for detection of established enteropathogens. There were no statistically significant differences in the detection of most of the enteropathogens from fecal samples of nosocomial diarrhea, hospitalized diarrhea and hospital controls. Enteric pathogens were detected at a higher frequency (statistically significant) from fecal samples of nosocomial diarrhea cases as compared to outpatient controls. This study highlights the importance of most of the enteropathogens like Shigella, Salmonella, rotavirus, enteropathogenic E. coli as the cause of hospital cross infection. This study reinforces the importance of developing preventive measures in order to reduce the frequency of illness.

journal_name

Indian Pediatr

journal_title

Indian pediatrics

authors

Dutta P,Mitra U,Rasaily R,Bhattacharya SK,De SP,Sen D,Saha MR,Nair GB,Niyogi SK,Das P

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Has Abstract,Author List Incomplete

pub_date

1993-02-01 00:00:00

pages

187-94

issue

2

eissn

0019-6061

issn

0974-7559

journal_volume

30

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