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ArticleEpidemiology and infection1990

Incidence of Campylobacter infection in infants in western Algeria and the possible protective role of breast feeding.

F Mégraud, G Boudraa, K Bessaoud, S Bensid, F Dabis, R Soltana, M Touhami

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Circulation of thermophilicFrontiers in veterinary science · 2023
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  5. Human campylobacteriosis in developing countries.Emerging infectious diseases · 2002
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

F MégraudLaboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital des Enfants, Bordeaux, France.
G Boudraa
K Bessaoud
S Bensid
F Dabis
R Soltana
M Touhami
Hôpital des Enfants · FRUniversité de Bordeaux · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A case-control study aimed at comparing the incidence of campylobacter infection with that of other enteropathogens in infants was performed in Oran, Western Algeria. During a one-year period, infants consulting in a health centre were included if they had acute diarrhoea. The controls comprised infants going to the same centre for vaccination. Butzler medium Virion was used to look for thermophilic campylobacters. Campylobacters were isolated in 17.7% of the 411 patients and in 14.9% of the 247 controls. No statistically significant difference was found after stratification by age. In contrast, other enteropathogenic bacteria were rarely present. Among the potential factors of clinical expression of infection, breast feeding appeared to have a protective effect which was higher for campylobacter diarrhoea than that observed for other causes of diarrhoea. These data contrast with those previously published in Bangladesh and could be an incentive for promoting breast feeding in this country, where the tradition is decreasing far below the standard which is generally accepted.

Indexed as

Breast FeedingAge FactorsAlgeriaCampylobacterCampylobacter InfectionsCase-Control StudiesDiarrhea, InfantileFecesFemaleHumansIncidenceInfantInfant, NewbornMaleRisk FactorsSeasons

Identifiers

PMID2384144
PMCPMC2271787
OpenAlexW2027513690

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