Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Dispatch
Tropheryma whipplei in Feces of Patients with Diarrhea in 3 Locations on Different Continents
Table 1
Frequency distribution of fecal pathogens in South Africa, Singapore, and Germany*
Location | No. (%) |
---|---|
Centurion, South Africa, 97 specimens | |
Tropheryma whipplei | 17 (17.53) |
Shigella spp. | 15 (15.46) |
Rotavirus A | 7 (7.22) |
Adenovirus type F, 40, 41 | 5 (5.15) |
Salmonella spp. | 4 (4.12) |
Campylobacter spp. | 4 (4.12) |
Blastocystis hominis | 4 (4.12) |
Cryptosporidium spp. | 4 (4.12) |
Giardia lamblia | 4 (4.12) |
Yersinia enterocolitica | 1 (1.03) |
Escherichia coli, EPEC, EHEC | 1 (1.03) |
Aeromonas hydrophila | 1 (1.03) |
Plesiomonas shigelloides | 0 |
No infective agent detected | 55 (56.70) |
T. whipplei solo |
8 (8.25) |
Singapore, 193 specimens | |
Rotavirus A | 73 (37.82) |
Norovirus GG1/2 | 35 (18.13) |
T. whipplei | 29 (15.03) |
Salmonella spp. | 24 (12.44) |
Campylobacter spp. | 17 (8.81) |
A. hydrophila | 10 (5.18) |
Sapovirus | 9 (4.66) |
Astrovirus | 8 (4.15) |
Adenovirus type F, 40, 41 | 5 (2.59) |
G. lamblia | 2 (1.04) |
Dientamoeba fragilis | 2 (1.04) |
Shigella spp. | 1 (0.52) |
B. hominis | 1 (0.52) |
Vibrio spp. | 0 |
Entamoeba histolytica | 0 |
Y. enterocolitica | 0 |
Cryptosporidium spp. | 0 |
No infective agent detected | 55 (28.50) |
T. whipplei solo |
2 (1.04) |
Regensburg, Germany, 300 specimens | |
Clostridioides difficile | 28 (9.33) |
T. whipplei | 10 (3.33) |
B. hominis | 10 (3.33) |
Campylobacter spp. | 8 (2.66) |
G. lamblia | 8 (2.66) |
Salmonella spp. | 3 (1.00) |
Y. enterocolitica | 2 (0.66) |
A. hydrophila | 2 (0.66) |
Shigella spp. | 1 (0.33) |
D. fragilis | 1 (0.33) |
Cryptosporidium spp. | 0) |
E. histolytica | 0 |
No infective agent detected | 242 (80.66) |
T. whipplei solo | 7 (2.33) |
*More than 1 pathogen was detected in some fecal specimens. T. whipplei solo indicates that T. whipplei was the sole organism detected. EPEC, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; EHEC, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.