Understanding the potential links between floods and bacillary dysentery in China is important to develop appropriate intervention programs after floods. This study aimed to explore the distributed lag effects of floods on bacillary dysentery and to identify the vulnerable groups in Huaihua, China. Weekly number of bacillary dysentery cases from 2005-2011 were obtained during flood season. Floo...

By D. GfOVINDA REDDY, mji, j. Professor of Pathology, Medical College,, Madras and M. THANGAVELU, *ij>. Department of Pathology, Medical College, Madras Tue idea existed until recently that Entamoeba histolytica.infection was more prevalent in the tropical and sub-tropical areas than in temperate and cool regions; but now we know that even in the tropics, bacillary dysentery is more common than...

Background: Indigofera cassioides DC.A deciduous shrub of family Fabaceae is an unexplored medicinal plant, being traditionally used in the states Kerala, Odisha, and Maharashtra. Different parts plant have been reported both as a food management chest pain, cold, asthma, diarrhoea, dysentery piles. Material methods: after proper authentication was collected from Paikemal (Odisha), during month...

BACKGROUND Bacillary dysentery (BD) is an acute bacterial infection of the intestine caused by Shigella spp., with clinical symptoms ranging from fever to bloody diarrhoea to abdominal cramps to tenesmus. In Vietnam, enteric bacterial pathogens are an important cause of diarrhoea and most cases in children under 5 years of age are due to Shigella strains. The serogroups S. flexneri and S. sonne...

BACKGROUND Bacillary dysentery is the third leading notifiable disease and remains a major public health concern in China. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban region is the biggest urban agglomeration in northern China, and it is one of the areas in the country that is most heavily infected with bacillary dysentery. The objective of the study was to analyze the spatial-temporal pattern and to deter...

Research shows potential effects of floods on intestinal infections. Baise, a city in Guangxi Province (China) had experienced several floods between 2004 and 2012 due to heavy and constant precipitation. This study aimed to examine the relationship between floods and the incidence of bacillary dysentery in Baise. A mixed generalized additive model and Spearman correlation were applied to analy...

Vernonia glabra is used by Malawian traditional healers to treat a myriad of ailments including shingles, diabetes, dysentery, diarrhoea, cough, wounds, gonorrhoea, and gastrointestinal problems. This study evaluated phytoconstituents the in vitro antimycobacterial activities crude extracts fractions from roots glabra. Agar disk diffusion modified broth microdilution assays were determine dichl...