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Fecal samples of 50 infants having diarrhoea and 25 controls were examined microscopically for the presence of fecal leucocytes. Number of fecal leucocytes was 21–23/HPF in patients from whom shigellae or salmonellae were isolated, and 1–2/ HPF in patients from whom Enteropathogenic, Enterototoxigenic Escherichia coli or oval cysts of parasites were recovered. This simple bed side investigation can be a useful tool in differentiating between invasive or enterotoxigenic diarrhoea in infants.
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Panhotra, B.R., Agarwal, K.C. & Walia, B.N.S. Faecal leucocytes in bacterial diarrhoea of infants. Indian J Pediatr 49, 189–191 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02830745
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