Prevalence of Salmonella enterica in children aged less than 5 years with acute diarrhea and controls in Teresina-PI Prevalência de Salmonella enterica em crianças com idade inferior a 5 anos com diarreia aguda e controles em Teresina-PI

• Main Authors: Maria do Rosário Conceição Moura Nunes (Author), Edilberto Nogueira Mendes (Author), João Maurício Moura Nunes (Author), Paula Prazeres Magalhães (Author), Francisco José Penna (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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We investigated the prevalence of Salmonella enterica (SE) among children (n = 400/250 with diarrhea) in Teresina-PI from 2004 to 2007. SE Newport was isolated from two samples and O-C2-C3-ND, Enteritidis, and Muenchen serological variants were isolated from one sample each. SE infection was more pr...