It must be clearly understood that the disease, as it occurs in jails, is in no way different from that occurring in the free population ; the only difference is one of severity, being more virulent in certain jails, and this I put down to the large number of men confined in a certain space, not necessarily overcrowded, to the depressing effect of jail life, and in certain cases to bad sanitati...

Although it is highly unlikely that a disease can be definitively diagnosed from a study of the pH of the faeces alone, the present study has helped to dispel the past belief that the pH of faeces in acute amoebic dysentery is more likely to be acidic. Culture for other pathogenic organisms has not been done in the present series of cases, but the chances of the coincidence of bacillary dysente...

Dysentery, a severe form of diarrhoeal disease, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Paradoxically, virtually no studies have been conducted to examine beliefs and behaviours associated with dysentery. The explanatory model of dysentery was explored in a community in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to understand the acceptability of a vaccine against dysentery. A local term for bloody dysentery is w...

BACKGROUND The effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence have gained more recent concern. However, the multi-collinearity among meteorological factors affects the accuracy of correlation with bacillary dysentery incidence. METHODS As a remedy, a modified method to combine ridge regression and hierarchical cluster analysis was proposed for investigating the effects of clim...

Bacillary dysentery is a major cause of children's admission to hospitals. To assess the probiotic and prebiotic (synbiotics) effects in children with dysentery in a randomized clinical trial, 200 children with dysentery were studied in 2 groups: the synbiotic group received 1 tablet/day of synbiotic for 3-5 days and the placebo group received placebo tablets (identical tablet form like probiot...

BACKGROUND Bacillary dysentery remains a major public health concern in China. The Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan urban region is one of the most heavily infected areas in the country. This study aimed to analyze epidemiological features of bacillary dysentery, detect spatial-temporal clusters of the disease, and analyze risk factors that may affect bacillary dysentery incidence in the region. METH...

In connection with a study to determine whether man could be successfully immunized against bacillary dysentery it was necessary to determine the infective dose of dysentery bacilli by feeding living Shigella to human volunteers. The only previous information concerning the susceptibility of man to experimental infection is contained in a few published observations' 3 of accidental laboratory-i...