The frequency of healthy carriers with enteropathogenic Bacteria in Surabaya, Indonesia

A study in an elementary school

Abstract

A total of 953 stool samples from the healthy children of a elementary school located in the suburb of Surabaya City, Indonesia, were examined for Shigella, Salmonella, Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, and four kinds of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli excluding enteroadherent aggregative E. coli. The carrier rate was 6.8% (65 children out of 953). Enteropathiogenic E. coli was isolated from 42 children, but the other diarrheagenic E. coli were not detected. Shigella spp. and V. cholerae non-O1 were isolated from 12 and 11 children, respectively.