DIFFERENTIAL CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC FEATURES IN CHILDREN WITH CAMPYLOBACTER DIARRHEA, MIXED-AGENT DIARRHEA AND CAMPYLOBACTER DIARRHEA PLUS PARENTERAL INFECTIONS

A prospective study of 111 young Peruvian children with Campylobacter jejuni diarrhoea showed that it behaves as an endemic enterotoxigenic- like, waterborne, milkborne, and zoonotic disease. Although there were no definite differential features between pure C. jejuni diarrhoea, m ixed-agent diarrhoea, and C. jejuni diarrhoea plus parenteral infectio ns, children with C. jejuni diarrhoea plus parenteral infections were all inpatients, were more frequently malnourished and more frequently exhibited systemic symptoms. Campylobacter jejuni associated with othe r enteric pathogens did not seem to act synergistically as the disease was not particularly severe in this group.