73-82 26-52 41-62 10-20 28-59 4421 41-29 72-23 27-21 19-15 50-88 84-46 76-65 26-04 22-21 12-49 60-79 21*55 20-81 6-12 14-30 24-56 13*77 49 01 9*89 9-57 35*62 32*99 49-00 10*96 9*72 1*56 In Table No. I will be found statistics showing the daily average population of the jail, the number of deaths from all causes, the deaths from intestinal affections, such as dysentery, diarrhoea, enteritis, but...

In November 1999, a Médecins Sans Frontières team based in the southeastern part of Sierra Leone reported an increased number of cases of bloody diarrhoea. Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 (Sd1) was isolated in the early cases. A total of 4218 cases of dysentery were reported in Kenema district from December, 1999, to March, 2000. The overall attack rate was 7.5%. The attack rate was higher amon...

Acorus calamus rhizome, Pongamia glabra leaves, Aegle marmelos unripe fruit and Psidium guajava root-bark have been reported to be extensively used in the Indian ayurveda system of medicine for the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery. However, the traditional claims need to be validated by a suitable experimental model. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of meth...

Background: Fly-borne diseases are still a health problem in urban and rural communities, such as related to the gastrointestinal tract, abdominal typhus, cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, others. The simplest most common mode of transmission is mechanical. In this method, vector spreads parasite through contact with host without breeding on fly.Objectives: This study aimed determin...

Background: Polygonum bistorta has been used as a remedy for jaundice, smallpox, pimples, measles, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, expelling worms, insect stings and snakebites. In this study, the crude extract from P. bistorta and two fractions viz. hexane and chloroform obtained from the crude extract were studied for their median lethal dosages (LD50) in Swiss albino mice. Methods: Powdered ...

Herbal medicines are significant and reliable sources for treating various infectious and non infectious diseases. It is well known that infectious diseases account for high proportion of health problem, especially in developing countries. Microorganism has developed resistance to many antibiotics and this have created immense clinical problem in the treatment of infectious disease. Holarrehena...

An increasing amount of interest is being shown in Reiter's disease and it is now recognized that the condition is commoner than was at one time believed. In many cases the complete triple syndrome does not occur, or is not recognized, as the ocular and genital components may be symptomless and escape detection unless specially looked for. The disease may be associated either with bacillary dys...

Background Xinxiang, a city in Henan Province, suffered from frequent floods due to persistent and heavy precipitation from 2004 to 2010. In the same period, dysentery was a common public health problem in Xinxiang, with the proportion of reported cases being the third highest among all the notified infectious diseases. Objectives We focused on dysentery disease consequences of different degree...