Abstract
In this issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Paton et al1 report the results of a six-month study of the occurrence of Salmonella and Shigella infection determined by routine rectal swab culturing of patients either admitted to a large acute and tertiary care hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, or experiencing a nosocomial episode of acute diarrhea during a six-month period of time at the same institution. The background infection rate for 667 sequentially admitted patients was approximately 3% for both agents. Salmonella infection at the time of admission was seen only in the children under 13 years of age. These infected children were older and were found more
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