4 The etiological agents of diarrhea are numerous, including multiple viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens.
The study's main strength is the prospective collection of multiple biological samples that should permit the diagnosis of etiological agents involved in pneumonia as well as the importance of colonization by other microbial agents.
The diversity of etiological agents, an inability to identify an etiology in the majority of enrolled patients, and the prevalence of multiple infections, demonstrate the complexity of diagnosis and treatment of medical care providers in this region of Cambodia.
In some cases the etiological agents are not specific to corals, but infect multiple and distinctive marine organisms [13], leading to difficulties in identify causative agents of the increasing number coral diseases that are described [14].
One of the most common etiological agents is S. pneumoniae.
Viruses are major etiological agents of childhood gastroenteritis.
Four mycoplasmal etiological agents have been identified: Mycoplasma (M).
One of the most important etiological agents of dental caries is Streptococcus mutans (Loesche 1986).
Hantaviruses are etiological agents of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome.
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is one of the etiological agents of respiratory tract infection (RTI).
