Despite improvements in global public health, diarrhoea causes more than 1.65 million deaths 2016 which placed as the eighth leading cause of mortality all ages and fifth death children age five years below Malaysia. The impact frequent diarrhoeal episodes is tremendous especially to include stunting cognitive delay. There are three types depending on symptoms acute watery diarrhoea, bloody (dy...

This study examines the efficiency of EPI cluster sampling in assessing the prevalence of diarrhoea and dysentery. A computer was used to simulate fieldwork carried out by a survey taker. The bias and variance of prevalence estimates obtained using EPI cluster sampling were compared with those obtained using simple random sampling and cluster (stratified random) sampling. Efficiency ratios, cal...

Despite being easily preventable and treatable, diarrhoea continues to be a serious public health problem in impoverished emerging countries. It is typical sign of gastrointestinal issues brought on by numerous pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa. Particularly developing nations it great concern as associated with considerable mortality morbidity children. the decline rate, still s...

A total of 383 children aged less than 5 years suffering from acute watery diarrhoea or dysentery were studied in hospital to determine the rate of persistent diarrhoea. Altogether 335 (87.5%) recovered within 13 days. Only in 48 (12.5%) did the diarrhoea continue for 14 days or more, and they were considered as having persistent diarrhoea. Children aged between 7 and 18 months had a significan...

The association of the dysentery bacillus with diarrhoea in infants is now established. Previous studies on the subject from this laboratory having proven this occurrence, we undertook as our present thesis the separation from the dejecta of all bacteria which could be cultivated, and which agglutiinated with the patient's blood, exhibited pathogenic properties for laboratory animals, or belong...

BACKGROUND Ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone and pivmecillinam are the antibiotics currently recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the treatment of dysentery in children; yet there have been no reviews of the clinical effectiveness of these antibiotics in recent years. METHODS We reviewed all literature reporting the effect of ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone and pivmecillinam for the tre...

OBJECTIVES To assess the frequency of serogroups and serotypes, as well as the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Shigella species isolated from known cases of diarrhoea and dysentery from Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted between January 2002 and March 2003 at Aga Khan University on stool samples received from children with diarrhoea and dysentery from fou...

THE investigation of chronic diarrhlea forms an important part of the examination of patients invalided from overseas commands, particularly from the tropics. This involves adequate laboratory examination for intestinal protozoa, flagellates, and dysentery organisms. During the course of the laboratory investigations on seven hundred of such patients with a history of chronic diarrhoea, dysente...