Campylobacter Enteritis in Ghana

Abstract

An investigation was carried out over a period of one year on the isolation of Campylobacter jejuni from children with and without diarrhoea in an urban and a rural area in Ghana. From a total of 836 stool specimens examined aver this period, the isolation rate of c. Jejuni was 6.6% (30/455) and 12.8% (36/281) from the urban and rural areas respectively. The incidence for the control group was 4% (4/100). C. Jejuni was found to be rather prevalent in children aged between 7-12 months. There appe~1 to be no relationship between the rain-fall pattern and the incidence of C. Jejuni Infection during the period of this study.