1. Isolation of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis strains in Poland.
- Author
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Meisel-Mikołajczyk F, Sebald M, Torbicka E, Rafałowska K, and Zielińska U
- Subjects
- Bacteroides fragilis chemistry, Cell Line, Child, Preschool, Colon cytology, Colon drug effects, Enterotoxins toxicity, Epithelial Cells, Feces microbiology, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Metalloendopeptidases toxicity, Pneumonia, Poland, Bacteroides Infections microbiology, Bacteroides fragilis isolation & purification, Diarrhea microbiology, Enterotoxins analysis, Metalloendopeptidases analysis
- Abstract
Fecal samples of 120 children (2 weeks to 3.5 year old) hospitalized in a pediatrical ward were investigated. In 56 of them diarrhea was observed. Out of 45 anaerobic gram-negative isolated rods, two Bacteroides fragilis strains were enterotoxigenic. Production of enterotoxin was established on the Human Colonic Epithelial Cell Line HT29/C1.
- Published
- 1994