Interest in diarrhoeal disease was intensified following the appointment of a subcommittee on enteritis in infancy by the Preventive Medicine Committee of the Medical Research Council. I am indebted to Dr. A. S. M. Macgregor, a member of the committee, for the suggestion to compile this review of the prevalence of the diarrhoeal diseases in Glasgow, with special reference to non-specific enteri...

Sir, The article by Curtis and Goel (Archives, 1979, 54, 222) prompts me to place the usage of Lomotil in young children in the tropics in its right perspective. The problems of diarrhoea in the tropics are quite different when compared with temperate climates, and management of this condition is therefore also different. In situations where children have little or no access to optimal therapeu...

Diarrhoeal diseases kill an estimated 2.5 million people each year, the majority being children under 5 years (Kosek et al. 2003). An estimated 4 billion cases annually account for 5.7% of the global burden of disease and place diarrhoeal disease as the third highest cause of morbidity and sixth highest cause of mortality (Pruess et al. 2002). Among children under 5 years in developing countrie...

Citation: Abdoli A and Maspi N (2018) Commentary: Estimates of Global, Regional, and National Morbidity, Mortality, and Aetiologies of Diarrhoeal Diseases: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Front. Med. 5:11. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00011 Commentary: estimates of Global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of Diarrhoeal Diseases: a Systema...

Pathogenic E.coli (61%) and Rotavirus(7%) were found in diarrhoeal stools of children. Amongst pathogenic E. coli enteropathogenic E. coil was mainly isolated which was sensitive to gentamycin. Infection due to pathogenic E. coil and Rotavirus was more among males upto one year of age (JPMA 35:326, 1985). INTRODUCTION E. coli and Rotavirus have been frequently found in infantile diarrhoea. The ...