The clinical and laboratory findings of 290 cases of bloody diarrhea who presented to the department of Diarrhea Training and Treatment between June 1998 and May 2002 were investigated, and compared to those of two consecutive cases who had watery diarrhea. The bloody diarrhea group had higher mean age, higher frequencies of diarrhea, lower frequencies of vomiting, and shorter durations of diar...

Diarrhea is among the most common clinical complaints in foals. According to the National Animal Health Monitoring System Equine ’98 study, diarrhea affected > 20% of foals within the first 6 months of age. Although diarrhea is common with enteritis(inflammation of the small intestine), diarrhea is not always associated with inflammation of the bowel. Before the veterinarian can consider a trea...

BACKGROUND As most of the studies in HIV patients with diarrhea were cross sectional, focusing on the etiological agents, we are reporting data on the rate of diarrhea, associations between diarrhea and CD4 counts and variation in frequency of identifying a pathogen with consistency of diarrhea and duration in a prospective hospital based study. METHODS Stool specimens were obtained between J...

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...