BACKGROUND In the past decade, bacillary dysentery was still a big public health problem in China, especially in Guangxi Province, where thousands of severe diarrhea cases occur every year. METHODS Reported bacillary dysentery cases in Guangxi Province were obtained from local Centers for Diseases Prevention and Control. The 14 socio-economic indexes were selected as potential explanatory var...

A Clinical Study of Amoebic Dysentery and Its Homoeopathic Management, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India. Background: To study the clinical presentation of amoebic dysentery and to study the results of Homeopathic management and treatment of amoebic dysentery. To assess the influence of miasm in the case of Amoebic Dysentery. Methodology: Thirty out-patients with clinically confirmed symptomatic...

Shigellosis is the most important cause of bacillary dysentery. It’s a major public health problem. It endemic in many developing countries resulting significant amount mortality and morbidity. The incidence 90 million with 6,00,000 deaths world over. In India, there an emergence resistance to Shigella limitation treatment. To study prevalence species their antibiogram stool samples obtained fr...

There is considerable confusion in regard to the existence of subdivisions of the mannitol-fermenting group of dysentery bacilli. Numerous attempt~ have been made to establish subdivisions on the basis of their biological and serological characteristics (1-8). My conclusions are derived from the fermentation and agglutination reactions of 77 cultures isolated from cases of clinical dysentery in...

It has been shown that a lytic fluid for dysentery bacilli can be obtained from the peritoneum of the guinea pig by intraperitoneal inoculation of live dysentery bacilli, and that the lytic action of such a fluid is not strictly specific, but that it exerts a group action on the dysentery-colon-typhoid group of bacilli. A lytic fluid with similar effects was obtained from a child dying of Flexn...

BACKGROUND The correct knowledge of standard case definition is necessary for frontline health workers to diagnose suspected diseases across Africa. However, surveillance evaluations commonly assume this prerequisite. This study assessed the knowledge of case definitions for health workers and their supervisors for disease surveillance activities in rural Kenya. METHODS A cross-sectional surv...

The objective of this cohort study was to assess risk factors for child dysentery and watery diarrhoea. The study participants consisted of 254 children aged 12-24 months in rural South Africa and Zimbabwe in households where drinking water was collected from communal sources. The main outcome measure was the most severe diarrhoea episode: dysentery, watery diarrhoea or none. For dysentery, dri...

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...

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...