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Orphan AirliftEnteric Pathogens Isolated From Vietnamese Children Immigrating to the United States
Robert Goldsmith, MD;
Fred Stark, MD;
Creed Smith, PhD;
George Healy, PhD;
Elizabeth Donegan, MD;
Vern Juchau, PhD;
Alex Stalcup, MD
JAMA. 1976;235(19):2114-2116.
Abstract
Isolation studies for bacterial and parasitic agents were carried out on stool specimens from Vietnamese infants at the time of their mass airlift to the United States. One or more bacterial pathogens were found in 49% of the 367 stool specimens cultured. The isolates included enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (161), Shigella (16), Salmonella (15), but no Salmonella typhi or Vibrio cholerae. Parasites identified in 88 stool specimens included Giardia lamblia (10), Ascaris lumbricoides (7), and Entamoeba histolytica (1). Transmission of agents to volunteers probably occurred, because 48% of 272 adults questioned had diarrhea shortly after caring for the children, and stool cultures from these adults resulted in the isolation of E coli (105), Salmonella (1), and Shigella (3).
(JAMA 235:2114-2116, 1976
Author Affiliations
Department of International Health, University of California, San Francisco (Dr Goldsmith); Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco (Dr Stalcup); Department of Medicine, Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco (Drs Stark and Donegan); Department of Pathology Reference Laboratory, Fort Baker, Calif (Drs Smith and Juchau); and the Parasitology Division, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta (Dr Healy).
Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of International Health, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr Goldsmith).
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