Acute Diarrheal Diseases in a Zuni Community

Combination vaccines against diarrheal diseases

Diarrheal diseases remain a leading cause of global childhood mortality and morbidity. Several recent epidemiological studies highlight the rate of diarrheal diseases in different parts of the world and draw attention to the impact on childhood growth and survival. Despite the well-documented global burden of diarrheal diseases, currently there are no combination diarrheal vaccines, only licens...

Chapter 9 . Diarrheal Diseases Gerald

Acute Diarrheal Syndromic Surveillance

Objective: In an effort to identify and characterize the environmental factors that affect the number of patients with acute diarrheal (AD) syndrome, we developed and tested two regional surveillance models including holiday and weather information in addition to visitor records, at emergency medical facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area of Korea. Methods: With 1,328,686 emergency departmen...

Childhood diarrheal morbidity and sanitation predictors in a nomadic community

BACKGROUND Diarrhea remains a leading killer of young children on the globe despite the availability of simple and effective solutions to prevent and control it. The disease is more prevalent among under - five children (U5C) in the developing world due to lack of sanitation. A child dies every 15 s from diarrheal disease caused largely by poor sanitation. Nearly 90% of diarrheal disease is att...

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diarrheal Diseases

to their fatherlands. This authorship by committee is appropriate since no single mind can present with authority the numerous techniques of the laboratory as applied to clinical medicine. Authoritative editorship of the various sections is available: Cruickshank for bacteriology, Allott for biochemistry, Della Vida of Rome for hematology and cytology, and Robb-Smith for histology. The book rep...