This study applied comprehensive microbiological and molecular methods to detect viruses, bacteria, and parasites in the study population, which is expected to increase the sensitivity of
enteropathogen detection.
However, reports of coinfection with both of these
enteropathogens are limited, and no pseudocyst stage of T.
was isolated as the unique
enteropathogen from a patient with diarrhea.
coli as an
enteropathogen became firmly established, however, by the discovery that some E.
Yersinia enterocolitiea is a gram-negative rod-shaped
enteropathogen closely related to Eseherichia coli.
(2005) reported that houseflies trap the
enteropathogen Aeromonas caviae between successive layers of their PTM, and the PTM in larval Trichoplusia ni has been shown to limit infection by baculovirus (Wang and Grandados, 1998).
To determine the etiologic agent, stool samples (i.e., either rectal swabs or bulk stools) were sent to one of several laboratories of HCHD, BCM, and TCH for diagnosis of bacterial, parasitic, and viral
enteropathogens. In stool samples from 44 patients tested by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, norovirus was confirmed in 22 (50%) specimens; no other
enteropathogen was identified.
Many cases of gastroenteritis without a confirmed
enteropathogen have viral causes.
Repeated sampling from patients in our study who had diarrhoea of unknown cause or persistent diarrhoea which was attributed to antibiotics may have yielded an
enteropathogen such as C.
Other basic clinical data of the children with diarrhea caused by a single
enteropathogen are shown in Table 2.
Campylobacter is an important human
enteropathogen bacterium, and C.