Infectious diarrhoea is the second most common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The WHO estimates that about 2.5 million people die annually as a result of infectious diarrhoea, most of them children!. In 2002 about 1.6 million children under the age of five in developing countries died from diarrhoeal disease. In the United States between 211375 million episodes of diarrhoeal diseas...

Acute Diarrhoea in children is the most frequent gastroenterological disorder and a common cause of dehydration children. The management acute diarrhoea consists replacement lost fluid with glucose-electrolyte oral rehydration solution. Probiotics have been used as adjunctive therapy treatment diarrhoea. In this study we evaluated efficacy Bacillus clausii (TIL 19T, TIL 21C, 28S, 30R) 48 aged b...

INTRODUCTION Young children in the developing world continue to experience a median of between two and four episodes of diarrhoea each year. To better understand adherence to the WHO/UNICEF-recommended diarrhoea management guidelines, which now include zinc, this study aimed to determine how much caregivers were willing to pay for zinc treatment and to explore the characteristics of actual user...

Enteric pathogens associated with chronic diarrhoea in HIV-positive patients were studied . The study was conducted during January 1995-December 1998. Stool specimens from all diarrhoea patients (n=26) were examined microscopically for ova and parasites using wet preparations and stained smears. Stool samples from diarrhoea patients were also cultured on appropriate media to isolate enteric bac...

Acute diarrhoea is a principal cause of morbidity and mortali ty among children in developing countries. The prompt and correct use of an o ral glucose elect roly te solution, developed and advocated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, has revolutionized the management of acute diarrhoea. Yet these solutions were widely underused in diarrhoeal episodes, partly due to the inabilit...

Persea americana is a plant used by traditional medicine practitioners to treat ailments including diarrhoea and diabetes mellitus in Nigeria. Hence, the chloroform and the methanol fractions of the chloroform-methanol extract of the leaves of P. americana were evaluated for their acute toxicity as well as anti-diarrhoeal effects in Wistar rats to substantiate this claim. The chloroform and met...

SUMMARY In this research, which was done for one year, we examined the stool of 35 HIV+ patients who had chronic, alternative, and usual drugs resistant diarrhoea, who were referred from infectious and Haemophilia wards of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran. All of the stools were examined by different Bacteriologic, Mycologic, and parasitologic techniques, in order to find the etiology of their...

the measurement of antibody responses of animals exposed to bvdv either through a natural exposure or an immunization protocol is still a standard procedure. for bvdv, the test formats have been largely limited to elisa which is a valuable diagnostic test to measure the level of bvdv specific antibodies as well as antigen in blood samples. in the present study, 120 blood samples were collected ...

Objectives: To assess the potential role of consumption of shellfish (particularly raw oysters) and tap water in the winter epidemic of acute diarrhoea in France. Design: Population based, case-control study during the 1995-6 winter epidemic of acute diarrhoea in France. Setting: A national network comprising 1% of general practitioners in France. Subjects: 568 pairs of cases and controls consu...