Dysentery is a common disease in Egypt. It affects children of all ages, but is most frequently encountered during the first two years of life. Thus, of 14,304 cases of dysentery examined at Fouad I Children's Hospital, during the last three years, 60 per cent. were in the first two years of life, 30 per cent. in the third to the sixth year and 10 per cent. in older children. The disease occurs...

To estimate the proportion of cases missed in a passive surveillance study of diarrhoea and dysentery at health centres and hospitals in Kaengkhoi district, Saraburi province, Thailand, a community-based cluster survey of treatment-seeking behaviours was conducted during 21-23 June 2002. Interviews were conducted at 224 households among a study population of 78,744. The respondents reported whe...

A 12-year-old spayed female Yorkshire Terrier with intermittent vomiting was diagnosed with regional granulomatous enteritis through histopathological examination. On ultrasonography and computed tomography, a focal thickened duodenal wall showed a mass-like appearance with indistinct wall layers. Marked uptake of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose was observed from the mass on positron emission tomograp...

Crohn's disease is not usually regarded as a premalignant state. Recent reviews of the literature1' 2 make scant reference to an association of regional enteritis with carcinoma. However, at the World Congress of Gastro-enterology, I958, Crohn observed that he had seen two cases of carcinoma of the small intestine co-existing with regional enteritis.3 Rare cases of carcinoma arising in patients...

INTRODUCTION Patients with lupus enteritis sometimes experience recurrence. In such cases, the addition of cyclophosphamide to the treatment regimen is recommended. However, an appropriate treatment has not been established in cases where cyclophosphamide failed to prevent the disease. CASE PRESENTATION An 18-year-old Japanese woman was admitted for a recurrence of lupus enteritis. One year b...

BACKGROUND Bacillary dysentery caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella is a significant public health problem in developing countries such as China. The objective of this study was to analyze the epidemiological pattern of bacillary dysentery, the diversity of the causative agent, and the antimicrobial resistance patterns of Shigella spp. for the purpose of determining the most effective alloc...

The group of dysentery organisms is a large and. varied one. It may be divided, as is well known, into two main sub-groups, the "Shiga-Kruse" and the "mannit-fermenters," which are of equal importance and entirely distinct. If we take decided differences in agglutination, as determined by absorptions, as a criterion of specificity, the latter group includes at least four distinct species with a...

Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is known to cause epidemics of bacillary dysentery worldwide. In 1984, an extensive outbreak of bacillary dysentery swept through several districts of West Bengal, including the state capital Kolkata, and subsequently, spread to other parts of India (1). Multidrug-resistant S. dysenteriae type 1 was identified as the sole aetiological agent in this outbreak. In the l...

To the Editob, " Indian Medical Gazette." Sib,?Will you allow me to testify through your paper to the efficacy of Tinct. Cannabis Indict, as advocated by Dr. Rennie in the treatment of chronic dysentery. I suffered from it for a period of over two years?from October 1884 to January, 1887. I first had an attack of acute dysentery in Calcutta in October 1884, and though I took most medicines advo...