OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidence and risk factors for gastroenteritis-related hospitalisations in older adults. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. PARTICIPANTS The 45 and Up Study is a large-scale Australian prospective study of adults aged ≥ 45 years (mean 62.7 years) at recruitment in 2006-2009. Self-reported demographic, health and dietary information at recruitment from 265,440 parti...

BACKGROUND Norovirus infection is the leading cause of acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis. Histoblood group antigens (HBGAs) are host susceptibility determinants for Norwalk virus (NV) infection. We hypothesized that antibodies that block NV-HBGA binding are associated with protection from clinical illness following NV exposure. METHODS We developed an HBGA blocking assay to examine the abili...

  The ever- increasing importance of campylobacter jejuni infectious is due to its associations with severe diarrhoea , especially in children. In order to determine the bacterial etiology of gastroenteritis, we cultured the stool of 903 patients over 10 months from April 1993 to February 1994. In this study, campylobacter jejuni, salmonella and Shigella were isolated from 19,29 and 16 patient...

South Korea, we performed molecular screening in fecal and nasopharyngeal samples from hospitalized children with gastroenteritis. A total of 26 (8.8%) of 294 fecal samples were positive for klassevirus. Klassevirus may be a possible cause of gastroenteritis.

Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. Infectious gastroenteritis is a common, acute illness that is characteristically self-limiting, but it can become debilitating and life-threatening in immunocompromised patients.1 Noroviruses are major pathogens among the microbes associated with gastroenteritis in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts1-4 (Table 1). In the United States...

Gastroenteritis is a common illness causing considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite improvements in detection methods, a significant diagnostic gap still remains. Human bocavirus (HBoV)s, which are associated with respiratory infections, have also frequently been detected in stool samples in cases of gastroenteritis, and a tentative association between HBoVs, and in particular t...

The emergence of antimicrobial resistance has led to the need for newer classes agents. Herbal medicines provide one preferred route drug discovery due their chemical diversity. This study aims evaluate activity Cymbopogon citratus in treatment bacterial gastroenteritis. Aqueous and methanol extracts C. were used study. Ciprofloxacin (a broad spectrum antibiotics a choice bacteria gastroenterit...

background: the recent studies show that rotavirus is important cause of the acute gastroenteritis. the aim of this review is to estimate the number of rotavirus infection among iranian children by performing a systematic review and estimating a pooled data. methods: we performed a systematic literature review in relevant databases including pubmed, medline, ovid, sid, magiran, and iranmedex. s...

background: acute gastroenteritis is responsible observed in all age groups, especially infants and children. the etiology and clinical course of acute gastroenteritis may vary with age and etiological agents. in developing countries, the morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diarrhea is higher in children younger than five-years-of-age. objectives: the aim of this study was to det...