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  • Title: Prevalence of Plesiomonas shigelloides among diarrhoeal patients in Bangladesh.
    Author: Rahim Z, Ali A, Kay BA.
    Journal: Eur J Epidemiol; 1992 Sep; 8(5):753-6. PubMed ID: 1296610.
    Abstract:
    The incidence of Plesiomonas shigelloides among diarrhoeal patients attending the Dhaka Treatment Centre of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) from January through December 1987, has been reported. Using bile peptone broth (pH 8.8) as an enrichment medium and Salmonella-Shigella agar to isolate the organism, P. shigelloides was isolated from 838 (6.4%) of 13,142 patients, 523 (4.0%) of whom had no other pathogen isolated. The percentage of isolation was higher from stool (9.2%) than from rectal swab (5.9%) specimens (P < 0.005). The incidence of P. shigelloides was higher among male (64.0%) than female (36.0%) patients (P < 0.005). Isolation was highest among children less than five years. P. shigelloides was isolated most often in March (11.0%) and September (7.7%), indicating two seasonal peaks of incidence before and after the monsoons. All the strains were uniformly sensitive to chloramphenicol, furazolidon, gentamicin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Sensitivity of the organism to ampicillin and tetracycline was 27.0% and 89.0%, respectively. This indicates that P. shigelloides may be an important agent of diarrhoea in our patient population.
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