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Diagnosis

Table 3.5 Laboratory reports of enteric pathogen isolates, England and Wales (2002–2006)
stratified by age; data from the HPA website 63
Infecting organism 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Cumulative total for 5 year period
Adenovirus a
0–1 month 0 0 0 1 0 1
1–11 months 24 31 17 11 26 109
1–4 years 22 53 18 15 25 133
Total: 243
Astrovirus data unavailable
Bacillus spp. data unavailable
Clostridium botulinum data unavailable
b
Calicivirus
0–1 month 0 0 0 0 0 0
1–11 months 11 13 25 10 2 61
1–4 years 7 15 17 8 6 53
Total: 114
Campylobacter
<1 year 879 846 846 746 747 4064
1–4 years 2688 2425 2407 2490 2440 12450
Total: 16 514
Vibrio cholerae data unavailable
Cryptosporidium
0–1 month 7 6 5 10 4 32
1–11 months 75 163 113 156 125 632
1–4 years 839 1516 991 1205 934 5485
Total: 6149
E. coli O157 data unavailable c
Entamoeba histolytica
0–1 month 0 0 0 0 0 0
1–11 months 0 0 0 0 0 0
1–4 years 5 4 1 1 2 13
Total: 13
Giardia lamblia
0–1 month 30 34 30 23 37 154
1–11 months 333 375 358 283 315 1664
1–4 years 149 168 136 139 120 712
Total: 2530
Listeria monocytogenes data unavailable
Norovirus
0–1 month 4 6 8 1 2 21
1–11 months 120 97 91 51 80 439
1–4 years 144 75 121 63 98 501
Total: 961
Rotavirus data unavailable
Salmonella d
<1 year 671 638 547 490 615 2961
1–4 years 1531 1465 1376 1330 1489 7191
Total: 10 152
Shigella data unavailable
a Adenovirus data includes adenovirus 40, 41, EM and ‘Adenovirus F’.
b One case of childhood botulism in the last 10 years: a 5-month-old female in 2001.
c E. coli O157: no data provided by HPA, but stated, ‘E. coli O157 is a relatively rare cause of infectious gastroenteritis
in England and Wales, however, the disease is severe and sometimes fatal, particularly in infants, young children and
the elderly.’
d Salmonella data exclude S. typhi amp and S. paratyphi.

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