Symptoms Simulating Cholera, Possibly Caused by Round-Worm Infections

A Case of Ascaris Infection Simulating Cholera

Sll?gested the clinical picture of cholera. . There had been no cases of cholera howevei 1,1 the village in which he lived. Without Raiting to make a diagnosis, 1 gave him two pints of hypertonic saline solution with glucose and adrenalin intravenously. I also ordered 10 minims of liquor adrenalin hydrochloride to be dropped under the tongue even l0ur for six doses. When I saw the patient six h...

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Gastrointestinal helminthiasis in developing countries contributes to malnutrition and anemia. Diagnosis and treatment of helminthiasis, especially with low worm load is an unmet public health need in such settings. The infection may sometimes become manifest when a second pathology leads to purgation of the gastrointestinal tract. Two cases of helminthiasis are presented in which the infection...

Unusual Symptoms in a Case of Round-Worm Infection

On the probability of extinction of the Haiti cholera epidemic

More than three years after its appearance in Haiti, cholera has already caused more than 8,500 deaths and 695,000 infections and it is feared to become endemic. However, no clear evidence of a stable environmental reservoir of pathogenic Vibrio cholerae, the infective agent of the disease, has emerged so far, suggesting the possibility that the transmission cycle of the disease is being mainta...

Multidrug Resistance in Infants and Children

Bacterial infections may cause disease and death. Infants and children are often subject to bacterial infections. Antimicrobials kill bacteria protecting the infected patients andreducing the risk of morbidity and mortality caused by bacteria. The antibiotics may lose their antibacterial activity when they become resistant to a bacteria. The resistance to different antibiotics in a bacteria is ...