Diarrhoea may be defined as deviation from established bowel rhythm, characterized by an increase in frequency and fluidity of stools. In others words, if passage of stools occur 3 or more times a day. In the health institutions, up to one third of total paediatric admissions are due to diarrhoeal diseases and up to 17% of all deaths in indoor paediatric patients are diarrhoeal related. Accordi...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a well-known invasive pathogen that can frequently cause severe infections in hospitalized patients. A major problem with P. aeruginosa infection may be that this pathogen exhibits a high degree of resistance to broad spectrum antibiotics. The main aim of this study is to know the prevalence of P. aeruginosa infection and its antibiogram in a tertiary c...

Many hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs restrict the availability of selected drugs by requiring prior approval. Carbapenems may be among the restricted drugs, but it is unclear if hospitals that restrict availability actually use fewer carbapenems than hospitals that do not restrict use. Nor is it clear if restriction is related to resistance. We evaluated the relationship between car...

We report results of surveillance for cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O139 from September 1992, when it was first identified, to December 1998. V. cholerae O139 dominated as the causative agent of cholera in Calcutta during 1992-93 and 1996- 97, while the O1 strains dominated during the rest of the period. Dramatic shifts in patterns of resistance to cotrimoxazole, neomycin, and streptomycin ...

In this prospective study we compared the efficiency of azithromycin and amoxicillin-clavulanate in treatment of acute sinusitis in children. Seventy patients were included in the age between 5 and 15 years. Beside ENT and pediatricians examination, nasal and throat smear on culture and antibiogram is taken from all the patients, as well as, X-ray of paranasal sinuses and laboratory findings, f...

Neonatal sepsis is a leading cause of neonatal mortality. Congenital heart disease accounts for additional risk of sepsis in neonates. Here we report a case of Down's syndrome with late onset neonatal sepsis associated with multiple superficial skin abscesses simulating staphylococcal infection. The baby was empirically treated with vancomycin. Subsequently, multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneum...