| Titre : | An epidemiological study on verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection among population of northern region of Iran (Mazandaran and Golestan provinces). (2003) |
| Auteurs : | MOHAMMAD MEHDI ASLANI (.) : IRN. Microbiology Department. Pasteur Institue of Iran. Tehran. ; BOUZARI (Saeid) : IRN. Molecular biology Unit. Pasteur Institue of Iran. Tehran. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | European journal of epidemiology (vol. 18, n° 4, 2003) |
| Pagination : | 345-349 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Escherichia coli ; Bactérie ; Epidémiologie ; Toxine ; Homme ; Iran ; Asie ; Prévalence ; Diarrhée ; Bactériose ; Infection ; Etude régionale ; Appareil digestif [pathologie] ; Intestin [pathologie] |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS e8NQR0xn. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Faecal samples from 3268 randomly selected inhabitants of two provinces in the northern region of Iran were screened to detect Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) using colony sweep polymyxin-B extraction method. Non-sorbitol fermentation phenotype and slide agglutination with 0157 and H7 antisera used to detect this serotype. We found that 0.7% of the population were infected with VTEC, however none of the isolates belonged to O157 : H7 serotype. We also found that children<6 years of age were at highest risk of infection with VTEC (p<0.05). Moreover, a significant association was found between the VTEC and diarrhoeal cases at the same age group (p<0.001). Overall distribution of the VTEC isolates in the general population was found to be random, though a kind of clustered distribution could be noticed. |
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