PEDIATRICS Vol. 16 No. 5 November 1955, pp. 585-589
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INFANTILE DIARRHEA IN THE DENVER AREA: SIGNIFICANCE OF PROTEUS-PROVIDENCIA ORGANISMS

C. D. Graber MSC1 and A. F. Lincoln MC1

1 The Laboratory Service and Research and Development Service, Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver 8, Colorado.

A 4-month survey of 607 stools taken from 341 infants with diarrhea under 1 year in the Denver area resulted in the isolation of only 20 Proteus strains and 1 Providencia organism. Fifty colitypes of suspect pathogenicity along with 9 Shigella and 8 Salmonella were the principal diarrheal incitants recovered.

The small number of Proteus and Providencia recoveries suggest that these organisms are not frequent diarrheal incitants for the pediatric population in the Denver community.

Submitted on December 17, 1954
Accepted on May 9, 1955