ACUTE BACTERIAL GASTROENTERITIS AS HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION IN PEDIATRICS (Abstract): Gastroenteritis as hospital-acquired infection represents one of the most important issue to be managed in pediatric units. Material and methods: The descriptive study was conducted on a group of 536 cases with bacterial gastroenteritis as heal thcare associated infections (HAIs), admitted in „Sf. Maria” Ch...

aim : the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence rate of cryptosporidium and other enteropathogen parasites among patients with gastroenteritis in western cities of mazandaran province, northern iran, during one year. background : as specific characterization, high humidity, ecological conditions, superficial water sources, municipal water supplies, domestic and industrial animal husb...

Rotavirus is the most important pathogen responsible for acute diarrhea in infants and young children. The incidence of rotavirus infection was studied in 156 children less than six years of age who were suffering from acute gastroenteritis, between February 22, 2006 and February 21, 2007 in Mashhad. Rotavirus antigen was detected by latex agglutination test (Rotascreen) in 28.8% of the stool s...

Here we report an outbreak of gastroenteritis due to V. cholerae 0139 in Pondicherry, South India. The outbreak lasted for 10 weeks beginning from middle of October, 1992. During the period, a total of 237 cases were admitted to JIPMER (tertiary care hospital) with gastroenteritis, of whom 100 were females. The mean age of all the patients was 39.20 ± 1.06 (SEM) years (range 0.02 to 76 years). ...

Thirty-eight infants and young children with gastroenteritis were investigated for lactose malabsorption. Each of them was given an oral lactose load of either 0.5 g/kg or 2 g/kg after which breath hydrogen excretion was measured, and each was observed to see if he had clinical symptoms of lactose intolerance. Only one patient, given 2 g/kg lactose, had clinical intolerance. His breath hydrogen...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neurological manifestations, such as benign convulsions and encephalitis/encephalopathy have been reported in patients with rotavirus gastroenteritis. However, cerebellitis has not attracted much attention. The purpose of this study was to identify and report the clinical and radiologic features of rotavirus cerebellitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Records of patients with r...

Methods The first aim of the study was to determine the plasma zinc level on admission in the hospital and 10 days after the recovery from acute gastroenteritis, in children aged 03 years, from the region of Bihor, Romania. Second aim of the study was to analysis the plasma zinc level according to the etiology of gastroenteritis. Zinc sulfate (10-20 mg daily, according to age) was given to the ...

Aeromonas caviae strains have been isolated from blood and stool cultures of three immunocompetent patients, residents of Northern India, who presented with community acquired septicemia without any recent history of diarrhea. Cell culture infectivity test performed on Hep-2 cells have shown substantial degree of invasiveness in the isolated strains. This case unleashes a possibility of asympto...

We report that two young adult patients who were initiated with clozapine for severe psychosis during a hospital-wide gastroenteritis outbreak went into severe shock. Neither patient had troponin elevation. Each required left ventricular assist device support for myocarditis. Endomyocardial biopsy revealed lymphocytic myocarditis in one patient and eosinophilic myocarditis in the other. The for...