Differential clinical and epidemiological features in children with different campylobacter diarrhoea, mixed-agent diarrhoea and campylobacter diarrhoea plus parenternal infection

A prospective study of 111 young Peruvian children with Campylobacter jejuni diarrhoea showed that it behaves as an endemic enterotoxigenic-like, waterborne, milkborne, and zoonotic disease. Although there were no definite differential features between pure C.jejuni diarrhoea, mixed-agent diarrhoea, and C. jejuni diarrhoea plus parenteral infections, children with C.jejuni diarrhoea plus parenteral infections were all inpatients, were more frequently malnourished and more frequently exhibited systemic symptoms. Campylobacter jejuni associated with other enteric pathogens did not seem to act synergistically as the disease was not particularly severe in this group.