Entérites à Campylobacter jejuni dans la région parisienne

Low incidence of campylobacter enteritis in Northern Ireland

In a prospective survey carried out over 9 months in 1984 in the Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 24 out of 1200 faecal specimens (2%) from patients with acute diarrhoea. This isolation rate is much lower than that from other parts of mainland Britain which report an isolation rate of between 8 and 15%. It is difficult to explain this large discrepancy but the limited availability of unpasteurized milk and the generally worse summer here (fewer barbecues, picnics) may be some reasons to explain this low incidence in N. Ireland.

[Etiology of infantile acute gastro-enteritis in usual practice in hospital]

The authors report the results of a study of enteric disease etiology from chilfren during one year. These study is about 155 diarrheas, 16 from them content leukocytes. Rotavirus are discovered in 38,1 % diarrheas without leukocytes. Between the bacteria isolated, Salmonellaare the most frequently enteric bacterias. After, Campylobacter, E. colientero pathogenic. The isolation of Yersinia enterocoliticaand Shigellaare frequentless. A particular mention about the associations : rotavirus - bacterias, and about the high frequency of Campylobacter.