Since the advent of sulphonamides chemotherapy of cholera lias been intensely studied, but it has not yielded any uniform results. These drugs have been tried generally with the usual saline treatment but the outcome has been nothing like the dramatic effect as seen in bacillary dysentery. Fonno-cibazol was expected to be somewhat more effective but its value appears to be limited. Recently Chl...

Bacillary dysentery (BD) remains a big public health problem in China. Effective spatio-temporal monitoring of BD incidence is important for successful implementation of control and prevention measures. This study aimed to examine the spatio-temporal pattern of BD and analyze socio-economic factors that may affect BD incidence in Sichuan province, China. Firstly, we used space-time scan statist...

Babu Jogornath Sen, G.M.C.B., a leading practitioner in the town of Calcutta, has given a fair trial to the efficacy of Liq. Kurchicine in various forms of dysentery, and recorded the following rough notes, which ho has kindly communicated to me :? " In my private practice I have found kurchicine a valuable medicine in all stages of dysentery,?both acute and chronic, and also in periodic fevers...

With the multiplicity of drugs of the sulpha group, the necessity for a study of comparative value of different members of this1 group is obvious. The present paper deals with the comparative value of sulphadiazine and sulphaguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery. A study was started with the plan to treat alternate cases of bacillary dysentery with sulphadiazine (group ' A') a...

Reiter's disease may be described as a syndrome of unknown {etiology presenting the classical triad of bilateral conjunctivitis, arthritis and urethritis. Ilmari Paronen of the University of Helsinki studied 344 cases on the Karelian Isthmus, originating mostly in a widespread epidemic of Flexner'sdysentery, and he concludes that Reiter's syndrome occurs only after dysentery and that the dysent...

Methods The study was conducted between November 2011and February 2012.Hospital staff including nurses, physicians and laboratory personnel and other stakeholders from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) were enrolled in the study. Data was collected from a review of documents, questionnaires and interview of stakeholders. Surveillance system attributes were evaluated using update...