Abstract
Diarrhea is a disease responsible mortality and morbidity of children under five years of age .The present study revealed that from total of 104 collected stool samples taken from infants with acute diarrhea 55 case of diarrhea recorded in male infants and 49 in female. The finding of our study detected 29 infection with enteric viruses and 75 with non-viral agents. The study recorded 24 infant stool samples were infected with Rotavirus, 5 with Adinovirus and 29 samples with different Mycobiota (fungal community species): Candida albicans (24), C.tropicalis (1), C.krusei (1), Saccharomyces cereviciae (1), Aspergillus niger (1), Cladosporium cladosporoides (1) and Fusarium verticillioides (1). Residents of rural community recorded higher rate of viral infection (54) compared with urban residents (15). Control Group revealed 18 infection with Mycobiota only. This study confirmed the interaction of Rotavirus and Mycobiota in the same samples.
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