OBJECTIVE Children in developing countries are at a high risk for zinc deficiency. Supplemental zinc has previously been shown to provide therapeutic benefits in diarrhea. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy and safety of supplemental oral zinc therapy during recovery from acute or persistent diarrhea. METHODS We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials t...

Escherichia coli strains isolated from sporadic cases of acute diarrhea in children and adults and from children without diarrhea were investigated for the presence of the pAA plasmid. Strains harboring the pAA plasmid were isolated at similar frequencies from children with (19.6%) and without (10.8%) diarrhea and from adults with diarrhea (11.8%). The genotypic and phenotypic virulence markers...

Background: Zinc is essential for nucleic acid metabolism, protein synthesis and tissue healing. Zinc deficiency has detrimental effects on child health and increases mortality rate of pneumonia and gastroenteritis. By improving absorptive function of villous cells and by reducing pathogenic enterobacteriaceae in lumen, Zinc improves diarrhea outcome in children. Previous studies in developing ...

Background: Excessive and irrational use of antibiotics in the treatment of acute diarrhea has caused increased resistance to these medications. It is well defined that most cases of diarrhea in children do not require the use of antibiotics. This study was aimed to determine the status of antibiotic administration for treatment of acute diarrhea in children younger than five years. All who adm...

Rotavirus ribonucleic acid (RNA) was extracted from ten faecal samples of diarrhoeic calves positive for group A rotavirus by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). A portion of the extracted RNA was run in polyacrylamide gel to determine the presence of rotaviral RNA and the rest subjected to reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to generate the near full length VP7 gene...

Transient magnetic resonance (MR) signal changes in the splenium of the corpus callosum (SCC) arise from many different conditions, including encephalopathy or encephalitis caused by infection, seizures, metabolic derangements, and asphyxia. Few case reports exist on reversible SCC lesions associated with rotavirus infection. A benign convulsion with mild gastroenteritis (CwG) is frequently ass...

As can be seen from the above 2 quotations, although diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, it is often not given the respect it deserves. Diarrhea and fecal incontinence are extraordinarily common in the nursing home. Diarrhea is a significant cause of increased expenditures in the nursing home because of nursing time and laundry expenses. Most deaths from diarrhea occur in olde...

conclusions rice soup regimen was highly effective and inexpensive in the treatment of acute diarrhea in children. thus, in addition to the common treatment by g-ors, rice soup can be consumed simultaneously with g-ors. results at the end of study, the time for treating acute watery diarrhea in the intervention and control groups were 21.10 ± 8.81 and 34.55 ± 5.82 hours (p < 0.001) and hospital...

aeromonas hydrophila is a causative agent of a number of human infections. aeromonads have been isolated from patients with diarrhea. in spite of a number of virulence factors produced by aeromonas species, their association with diarrheal diseases has not been clearly linked. in current study, 1546 fecal samples of a randomly selected population were screened for presence of a. hydrophila. out...

results sequence analysis indicated that echovirus shared the highest nucleotide identity (85%) with the ev92 strain isolated from the rhesus macaques with gastroenteritis from a us primate center. phylogenetic analysis showed that the ev92 isolated in this study had clustered together with other echoviruses isolated from the primates. conclusions the results suggested that ev92 as a new echovi...