Arthritis occurred in 4 5 per cent. of 600 patients with regional enteritis reviewed by Van Patter, Bargen, Dockerty, Feldman, Mayo, and Waugh (1954). Ford and Vallis (1959) described four cases of arthritis in regional enteritis and suggested that it was similar in nature to the arthritis associated with ulcerative colitis (Bywaters and Ansell, 1958). The present study was undertaken to invest...

background : shigella is responsible for high morbidity and mortality among children, yet its true prevalence remains inconclusive. the aim of this study was to determine the actual prevalence of shigella infection in childhood diarrhea and dysentery cases and assess the applicability of ipah gene pcr in indian settings. methods : this study was conducted at maulana azad medical college and ass...

I t has been stated in the literature that the vegetative form of the dysentery ameba dies within a few hours outside of its host and forms no cyst. In a study made in 1917, the author has observed, however, that the large vegetative ameba of dysentery is transformed into a smaller vegetative form, and that occasionally it develops in vitro a tetranuclear cyst. Proliferation takes place in feca...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder which can affect multiple organs and clinical presentation is often a myriad of symptoms; therefore, the index of suspicion should rise when evaluating patients with multiorgan symptomatology. Lupus enteritis is a distinct subset of SLE, defined as either vasculitis or inflammation of the small bowel, with supportive image and/or biop...

OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate the clinical efficacy of glutamine in treating radiation enteritis in cancer patients treated with radiotherapy. METHODS Electronic databases including Pubmed, Embase, the Cochrane library, and CNKI were systematically searched, until April 2016. Randomized controlled trials (RCT) of glutamine in the treatment of radiation enteritis in cancer patients were...

INTRODUCTION Dysentery is an intestinal inflammation which is created by the microorganisms attacking intestine mucus. Knowing the prevalence of this disease in different societies paves the way for programming and providing treatment and preventive measures. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the epidemiologic pattern and geographical distribution of dysentery based on GIS. MET...

dysentery, but there has been a good deal of discussion lately as to the value of the specific in dysentery as it occurs on tea gardens, in other words whether amoebic dysentery is at all prevalent up here. The general opinion of those with whom I have discussed the matter is that it is comparatively rare, and it occurred to some of us that if notice were given to members that a discussion on t...

The National Institute of Health of Japan, Tokyo (Received for publication, March 30, 1950) Evolutional steps of -nitrogen requirements of bacteria have been set up as follows. N2-N03-NH4-amino nitrogen-amino nitrogen+growth factor. Dysentery bacilli belong to the last step (3, 4, 6). As shown in the preceding report (5), Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga type) belongs to the transition zone between ...

a case of gangrenous stomatitis following an attack of bacillary dysentery in your correspondence columns. The patient, a boy aged about 3 years, was suffering from bacillary dysentery for about a fortnight before the onset of gangrenous stomatitis. General debility was probably the predisposing cause. It is usually considered that this rare disease occurs during convalescence from acute fevers...