Studying the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni in adults with gastroenteritis from northwest of Iran

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• 作者：Ahmadreza Mobaien^a ; Farzaneh Moghaddam^b ; Samaneh Talebi^a ; Afsaneh Karami^a ; Hamidreza Amirmoghaddami^a ; Ali Ramazani^b ; ^{ramazania@zums.ac.ir}
• 关键词：Campylobacter jejuni ; RT-PCR ; Gastroenteritis ; Campylobacteriosis
• 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：6
• 期：12
• 页码：957-960
• 全文大小：345 K
• 卷排序：6

文摘

To investigate the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) in the patients with gastroenteritis.MethodsThis descriptive and analytical study included all adult patients with acute diarrhea admitted to the University Hospital of Zanjan Province who were enrolled in a one-year period from 2013 to 2014. Stool samples were checked for white blood cells (WBC) and lactoferrin, then samples with WBC ≤ 5 positive for lactoferrin were selected for amplification of mapA gene of C. jejuni by RT-PCR assay.ResultsIn this study, 864 patients (410 men and 454 women) with acute diarrhea were enrolled, of which about 718 patients had WBC less than 5 and 146 patients had WBC more than 5 in the stool exam. All inflammatory diarrhea samples were tested for lactoferrin and 111 cases of the samples tested were positive for lactferrin. A total of 40 samples out of 111 were positive for C. jejuni by RT.ConclusionsThe finding of this study showed that the prevalence of inflammatory diarrhea and diarrhea caused by Campylobacter in this study is high. This need for education and awareness in this area, as well as appropriate treatment is too important.