Cryptosporidium is one of the most common causes of childhood diarrhea in developing countries. The aim of this randomized pilot study was to detect and characterize infective species and determine the genotypes of Cryptosporidium parasites in pediatric patients suffering from diarrhea in North West of Iran. A total of 113 fecal samples were collected from diarrheic children hospitalized in Tab...

Introduction: Diarrheal diseases are a serious health problem and important causes of growth retardation and death in the developing world, especially those of prolonged duration. Since diarrhea is constantly found in children with zinc deficiency, very studies supported zinc supplements beneficial on the duration and severity of diarrhea among children. We review the impact of zinc effects on ...

background: to determine the risk factor for acute diarrhea disease in children. methods: in the survey, 220 cases and 220 controls were involved. cases were children with loose watery feces, pathologically diagnosed as acute diarrhea by the physician, and enrolled from the emergency ward as the incident cases in dr. sheykh hospital, mashhad, northeast of iran. control group too, was enrolled f...

introduction: antibiotic- associated diarrhea is a common problem in pediatric population. there is growing interest in probiotics, probiotics and synbiotics for prevention of this complication because of their worldwide availability as dietary supplements. the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a synbiotic mixture in prevention of antibiotic- associated diarrhea.   materials and m...

cronkhite- canada syndrome (ccs) considered as a rare and non-hereditary disorder. gastrointestinal polyposis and diarrhea along with some extra signs and symptoms such as hypoproteinemia, and epidermal manifestations are recognized in this syndrome. the pathophysiology of this syndrome is not completely understood and it seems that inflammatory processes may be involved. we present a 50 year-o...

conclusions the high incidence density of diarrhea among the children recruited in this study indicates the need for educational programs directed at people who are involved in this issue. results the incidence of acute diarrhea among the 0 - 1-year-old children was 26.7 cases per 1,000 children per month. independent risk factors for the occurrence of diarrhea were maternal age under 20 years ...

shigellosis is an important public health problem, especially in developing countries. antibiotic treatment of bacterial dysentery, aimed at resolving diarrhea or reducing its duration is especially indicated whenever malnutrition is present. first-line drugs include ampicillin and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole(tmp-smx); however multidrug-resistance has occurred and careful antibiotic selection...

the objective of the present study was to determine the therapeutic effectiveness of orally administered sepiolite on neonatal calf with diarrhea. the study was conducted on fifty 1-30 days old public owned calves (40 animals for experiment and 10 animals for control groups), in afyonkarahisar region, turkey. sepiolite was administered orally to all animals in the experiment group for 30 days, ...

 Background: Probiotic therapies with different strains demonstrated some beneficial effects, although some studies did not show any significant effects. This study assessed systematically the current knowledge on the effect of probiotic bacteria on duration of in acute rotavirus diarrhea in children compared with control. Methods: The PubMed, Cochrane Controlled Trial Register (CCTR) and Ov...

conclusions these results indicated that eaec strains isolated from iranian children with diarrhea were heterogeneous and showed high resistance rates against commonly used antibiotics, which was similar to that reported in studies performed in other countries. results significant percentage of local eaec strains carried the virulence plasmid genes and formed biofilms. in addition, these strain...