Frequency of viral, bacterial and parasitic enteropathogens among young children with acute diarrhoea in Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

This study indicated that most of the diarrhoeal diseases in young children in Saudi Arabia are due to viral etiology, where Rotavirus was predominant followed by Adenovirus and Astrovirus. While Salmonella and Shigella represent the bacterial etiology of paediatric acute diarrhoea and only Giardia lamblia was found as a parasitic cause of diarrhoea in young children in our study.