High prevalence of shigella or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli carriage among residents of an internally displaced persons camp in South Sudan

Jesse Bliss; Malika Bouhenia; Peter Hale; Brianne A. Couturier; Anita S. Iyer; John Rumunu; Stephen Martin; Joseph F. Wamala; Abdinasir Abubakar; David A. Sack; Francisco J. Luquero; Marc Roger Couturier; Andrew S. Azman; Daniel T. Leung

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.17-0339

High prevalence of shigella or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli carriage among residents of an internally displaced persons camp in South Sudan

Jesse Bliss, Malika Bouhenia, Peter Hale, Brianne A. Couturier, Anita S. Iyer, John Rumunu, Stephen Martin, Joseph F. Wamala, Abdinasir Abubakar, David A. Sack, Francisco J. Luquero, Marc Roger Couturier, Andrew S. Azman, Daniel T. Leung

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Displaced persons living in camps are at an increased risk of diarrheal diseases. Subclinical carriage of pathogens may contribute to the spread of disease, especially for microbes that require a low infectious dose. Multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed to detect a panel of 20 bacterial, viral, and protozoal targets, and we report a high prevalence of enteropathogen carriage, including Shigella spp. or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli in 14%, among a sample of 88 asymptomatic individuals in an internally displaced persons camp in South Sudan. Further studies are needed to determine the contribution of such carriage to the spread of disease.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	595-597
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume	98
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0339
State	Published - 2018

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Virology
Parasitology

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Bliss, J., Bouhenia, M., Hale, P., Couturier, B. A., Iyer, A. S., Rumunu, J., Martin, S., Wamala, J. F., Abubakar, A., Sack, D. A., Luquero, F. J., Couturier, M. R., Azman, A. S., & Leung, D. T. (2018). High prevalence of shigella or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli carriage among residents of an internally displaced persons camp in South Sudan. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 98(2), 595-597. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0339

Bliss, J, Bouhenia, M, Hale, P, Couturier, BA, Iyer, AS, Rumunu, J, Martin, S, Wamala, JF, Abubakar, A, Sack, DA, Luquero, FJ, Couturier, MR, Azman, AS & Leung, DT 2018, 'High prevalence of shigella or enteroinvasive Escherichia coli carriage among residents of an internally displaced persons camp in South Sudan', American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 595-597. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0339

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