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Abstract
Gastroenteritis is a common infection with high morbidity in children. Viruses, particularly rotaviruses, are the principal causes of childhood gastroenteritis, but bacterial diarrhea is not uncommon. Bacteria can be identified by culture 48 hours or more after stool sample collection. However, regarding the clinical features of gastroenteritis, it is difficult to distinguish clinically between viral and bacterial causes.
Aside from the lack of epidemiological investigation of acute gastroenteritis in children, comparisons of the characteristic features of bacterial and viral gastroenteritis have rarely been reported. Blood in stool and hyperthermia are found more frequently in bacterial than viral cases of diarrhea, whereas watery diarrhea and vomiting are associated with viral gastroenteritis. A strict comparative study investigating the unique features of bacterial and viral diarrhea in children is therefore required
The study presented here aimed to elucidate the diagnostic value of bacterial stool cultures and viral antigen tests when performed based on the clinical characteristics of acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children. Our study describes the quantitative association between leukocyte cell count, lymphocyte and neutrophil and the risk of bacteriaemia and rotavirus in young children patients with gastroenteritis.
The present study was designed to study the production of CRP and IL-10 during the acute phase (72 h) of acute invasive gastroenteritis (AIGE) and also to investigate a possible correlation between their production and the disease severity.