Salmonella typhi and Shigella are frequently isolated enteric pathognes in Korea. Recent improvement of environmental hygiene is expected to reduce these infections. Campylobacter jejuni and Yersinia enterocclitica are recently recognized enteric path...
Salmonella typhi and Shigella are frequently isolated enteric pathognes in Korea. Recent improvement of environmental hygiene is expected to reduce these infections. Campylobacter jejuni and Yersinia enterocclitica are recently recognized enteric pathogens frequetly isolated in some parts of the world. In this study, stool culture results at Yonsei Medical Center during 1979~1983 were analyzed. The proportion of S. typhi was decreasing while S. enteritidis increasing. The proportion of S. flexneri serovar 2 was slightly decreasing while serovar 1 increasing. C. jejuni and Y. enterocclitica were isolated, but not frequently. Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli remained to be frequently isolated. Antimicrobial resistance problem was not present with salmonella and C. jejuni, but was a serious one with S. flexneri and S. boydii.