High Mean Water Vapour Pressure Promotes the Transmission of Bacillary Dysentery

High Mean Water Vapour Pressure Promotes the Transmission of Bacillary Dysentery

Bacillary dysentery is an infectious disease caused by Shigella dysenteriae, which has a seasonal distribution. External environmental factors, including climate, play a significant role in its transmission. This paper identifies climate-related risk factors and their role in bacillary dysentery transmission. Harbin, in northeast China, with a temperate climate, and Quzhou, in southern China, w...

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

Sir,?There are two points arising from your December editorial on the treatment of acute baeillary dysentery on which I think further comment to be necessary. These are, first, the absorption of sulphapyridine from the gastro-intestinal tract, and second, the mention of chronic baeillary dysentery. To deal with absorption first : the rate of absorption of the sulphonamides varies directly, with...

The Treatment of Bacillary Dysentery

Bacillary Dysentery in Cyprus

The severity of the illness varied from a few loose stools to the passage of bloody fl.uid up to fifty times per day. Other symptoms included fever, nausea, occasional vomiting and abdominal cramps. There was no obvious relationship 'between the severity of the symptoms and the organism isolated. Abdominal tenderness was a common physical sign. Prostration and dehydration were surprisingly infr...

Chemotherapy in Bacillary Dysentery