BACKGROUND In Ontario, Canada, enteric case investigators perform a number of functions when conducting telephone interviews including providing health education, collecting data for regulatory purposes ultimately to prevent further illness, enforcement, illness source attribution and outbreak detection. Information collected must be of high quality as it may be used to inform decisions about p...

BACKGROUND Enteric diseases affect thousands of Canadians annually and several large outbreaks have occurred due to infection with enteric pathogens. The objectives of this study were to describe the spatial and temporal distributions of reportable Campylobacter, Escherichia coli, Giardia, Salmonella and Shigella from 1994 to 2002 in New Brunswick, Canada. By examining the spatial and temporal ...

background: we reviewed the monthly laboratory surveillance reports and hospital laboratory database in dhahira region, oman. methods: all patients for whom a stool sample examination request was made from 1 st january 2002 to 31 st december 2006 (5 years) were included in the study. antimicrobial resistance pattern was studied for 2 years period. the cultures were done using standard laborator...

In recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence of food-borne diseases worldwide, with viruses now recognized as a major cause of these illnesses.The viruses implicated in food-borne disease are the enteric viruses, which are found in the human gut, excreted in human feces, and transmitted by the fecal-oral route. Many different viruses are found in the gut, but not all are recogni...

hirchsprung’s disease is a developmental disorder of the enteric nervous system, characterized by abdsence of ganglion cell in the myenterric and submucosal plexuese along a variable portion of the distal intestine.the purpose of this study is the presentation of a new procedure for reduction of the postoperative complications of hirschsprung’s disease (hd) by offering a modified swenson’s tech...

One hundred and seven fattening pig units randomly selected in Catalonia (Spain) were surveyed during 2001-2003, in order to determine the frequency of the prophylactic use of antimicrobials and mass treatments against respiratory and enteric disease outbreaks. Logistic regression and regression tree analysis were done to determine the factors associated with the on-farm mass antimicrobial usag...

Yersinia ruckeri was isolated from diseased unvaccinated rainbow trout obtained from a farm in which vaccination against enteric redmouth disease (ERM) has been systematically performed for more than 10 years. Affected fish presented typical signs of yersiniosis including exophthalmia and eye haemorrhages. Serological characterization of the isolate demonstrated that it belongs to the serotype ...

Serovars of the Gram-negative bacterium Salmonella enterica are usually associated with food-borne diarrheal illness in high-income countries. Such gastrointestinal disease is normally self-limiting and rarely life-threatening. Perhaps surprisingly, Salmonella has not been identified as a principal etiological agent of diarrhea in developing countries. 1 Nevertheless, Salmonellae are responsibl...

Background The prevalence of enteric rods and their association with chronic periodontitis has gained prominence recently. Although the prevalence of these organisms from the subgingival plaque sample was reported in the literature, the carriage rate of these rods in our population is lacking. The present study was undertaken to know the carriage rate of enteric rods from our population in pati...