"Determinación de Lactoferrina en heces y su sensibilidad para infecciones intestinales bacterianas agudas en población pediátrica”

Abstract

The aim of this research was to determine fecal lactoferrin and sensitivity for acute bacterial intestinal infections in the pediatric population, who attended the Hospital General Docente Ambato. The research was descriptive and correlate that determine the sensitivity for acute bacterial intestinal infection. The bacteria were identified more Salmonella spp. 35% and 42.5 % Shigella. The sensitivity of fecal lactoferrin was 95 % in order to differentiate the etiology of bacterial Gastrenteritis in pediatric patients, which indicated to us the disease. In conclusion we can say that the test of fecal lactoferrin had a higher sensitivity to Polymorphonuclear research, with reference to the Gold Standard test for bacterial intestinal infection is the stool culture.