Aerobic Bacteriological Study with their Antibiogram in Infants with Acute Diarrhoea in North East Karnataka, India
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Diarrhoea may be defined as deviation from established bowel rhythm, characterized by an increase in frequency and fluidity of stools. In others words, if passage of stools occur 3 or more times a day. In the health institutions, up to one third of total paediatric admissions are due to diarrhoeal diseases and up to 17% of all deaths in indoor paediatric patients are diarrhoeal related. According to WHO, children alone constitute 3.5 to 8 million diarrhoeal deaths per year, worldwide.
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