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Pathogenic bacteria associated with acute childhood diarrhea and their susceptibility profiling in Misan Province, Iraq
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NOORALDEN JASIM, DIANA BASIM ABDULHAMEED AL-QAYSI
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Diarrheal disease is a major health problem causing death among children, especially, under 3-years of age,
hence, it is necessary to detect the etiological agent for the active therapy of the disease. Two hundred stool
specimens were collected from children with acute diarrhea between 2-60 months of age during April to
October in 2018 from two hospitals in Misan Province. Diarrhea was more frequent in children with the age
group (13-24 months) and the feeding bottle (64% and 63%, respectively). Pathogenic bacteria were presented
in 56% of specimens. Enteropathogenic bacteria were identified by Vitek system. Out of 112 bacterial isolates
were identified, E. coli was the common cause with 89 isolates. Nevertheless, the frequencies of Salmonella
typhi , Shigella flexneri , Shigella sonnei and Shigella dysenteriae were 8, 5, 4 and 2 respectively, whereas, Salmonella
enterica, Salmonella paratyphiA , Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae were 1 for each. Antibiotic
susceptibility tests accomplished onto identified isolates using the disc diffusion technique. Among the
antibiotics tested, imipenem was a very effective drug (98.2%), followed by ciprofloxacin, co-trimaxazole and
amikacin (77.6%, 76.7% and 61.6% respectively) ,while ampicillin and cephalothin were poor activity against the
bacterial isolates (2.7% and 0.89%) respectively.
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Diarrheal disease; children; pathogenic bacteria; antimicrobial susceptibility.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2019.11.04.102
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