Abstract
Bacterial enteropathogens (BP) were prospectively evaluated in a cohort of infants of low socio-economic status. One group consumed an iron fortified milk formula (IF) and a control group was fed a similar non fortified milk (NF). A total of 578 diarrheal (D) episodes (290 IF and 288 NF) and 615 asymptomatic (A) infants (300 IF; 315 NF) had stool cultures. The incidence of BP was similar in IF and NF infants in symptomatics (42 - 40%) and assymptomatics(15 - 13%). The number of cases with mixed bacterial infections and/or protracted excretion (>7 days), as well as the species distribution (see table) did not show significant differences between IF and NF groups, either for the diarrheal episodes or the asymptomatics.
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