Prevalence and Resistance Rate of Campylobacter and Other Organisms that Caused Acute Diarrhea Among Children in Nakhonpathom Hospital

Abstract

Prevalence and resistance rate of Campylobacter and other organism that caused acute diarrhea among children in Nakhonpathom Hospital were studied. Stool from 100 diarrheal and 100 non-diarrheal inpatients were collected. Campylobacter were isolated 11 cases in diarr heal group and 2 cases in controlled group, 84.6%, 7.6%, 84.6% and 86% of specimens resisted to ciprofloxacin, ampicillin, nalidixic acid and co-tnmoxazole respectively but all were sensitived to aztreonam and erythromycin.

The other pathogens isolated were shigella, salmonella, aeromonas, plesiomonas, vibrio and E. coli. Most of these resisted to nalidixic acid, ampicillin and co-trimoxazole but were sensitived to ciprofloxacin and aztreonam except E.coli that resisted to aztreonam. Virus were also isolated, most of them were rotavirus, adenovirus and norovirus.