background recently cryptosporidium has gained much attention as a clinically human pathogen in immunocompromised cases and young children. this study investigated frequency and risk factors related to cryptosporidiosis in under 5–year old children. patients and methods stools were examined by elisa method to detect cryptosporidium surface antigen (csa) using remel prospect cryptosporidium (mon...

aim : we intended to find out the diversity of epec isolates among asymptomatic or diarrheal children in iran using ribotyping. background : enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec) is responsible for gastroenteritis especially in young children. patients and methods : a total of 39 epec collected strains were serotyped and the presence of virulence genes as well as eaf plasmid among the strain...

patients and materials this was a across-sectional prospective study performed at the pediatric department of rasoul hospital, tehran, iran (2009-2011) on 80 hospitalized children with viral age. all stool samples were collected on viral transport media. human bocavirus (hbov) was detected using the real-time pcr taqman method. molecular detection of human parechovirus type 1 (hpev-1) rna in st...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea causes an estimated 2.5 million child deaths in developing countries each year, 35% of which are due to acute diarrhea. Zinc and copper stores in the body are known to be depleted during acute diarrhea. Our objectives were to evaluate the efficacy of zinc and copper supplementation when given with standard treatment to children with acute watery or bloody diarrhea. METHODS...

Diarrhea is an endemic disease that can cause Extraordinary Events (KLB). In 2017, there were 21 occurrences of diarrhea spreading across 12 provinces with a total 1,725 patients and 34 deaths (CFR 1.97%). There are three risk factors for diarrhea, namely individual characteristics, preventive behavior, environment. This research to determine the correlation between toilet ownership occurrence ...

Diarrhea is common among hospitalized patients but the causes are distinct from those of diarrhea in the community. We review existing data about the epidemiology of nosocomial diarrhea and summarize recent progress in understanding the mechanisms of diarrhea. Clinicians should recognize that most cases of nosocomial diarrhea have a noninfectious etiology, including medications, underlying illn...

Diarrhea is a common adverse event of docetaxel with 20%-40% of incidence and severe diarrhea occurs in 5%-6%. Several treatment guidelines for chemotherapy induced diarrhea (CID) exist, however the prophylaxis for that is not well known. We describe a new prophylactic approach for the CID with loperamide. A 72-yr-old male patient with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer developed diarrhea repe...

Abstract Chronic diarrhea, including diarrhea‐predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS‐D), osmotic bile acid and antibiotic‐associated is a common problem which highly associated with disorders of the gut microbiota composition such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) so on. A growing number studies have supported view that Chinese herbal formula alleviates symptoms diarrhea by mod...

the child feeding practices in health and during diarrhea were studied in 531 households in rural areas of sirjan, iran. although most mothers did not believe in food avoidances and recommendation for children some of them had belief in these regard. inappropriate child food practices in diarrhea were common among many mothers. inappropriate child food practices in diarrhea were common among ma...