A preliminary investigations was carried out to study the antibacterial activity of the water soluble extracts of five and ten years old barks of Eugenia Jambolana Lam. (fam. Myrtaceae) on dysentery and diarrhoea forming micro organisms. It was observed that the barks of young plants have a better inhibitory effect on micro - organisms like Salmonella viballerup, Shigella dysenteriae 10, Shigel...

stimulate to further effort towards attempting the solution of the many etiological puzzles which, more especially in tropical diseases, still remain unsolved. Among other tropical diseases, the various affections whose leading symptom is intestinal flux, and which are included under the somewhat elastic names of dysentery, sprue, chronic diarrhoea, colitis, entero-colitis, etc., are, perhaps, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of Campylobacter jejuni infection in children suffering from diarrhoea/dysentery in the Department of Microbiology, Army Medical College and Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from 29 August 2002 to 29 November 2002. METHODS The study was carried out on one hundred stool samples of children up to the age of twelve years admitted with diarrhoea/dysentery in Mil...

jasminum amplexicaule buch.-ham. (oleaceae) has been commonly used in the traditional medicine in dysentery, diarrhoea and bellyache in china. in the present work, the methanol extract of jasminum amplexicaule (jme) was examined for pharmacology on human colonic epithelial cell line t84 by the short-circuit current technique. the results showed that pretreatment of t84 cells with jme produced a...

Diarrhoea that begins acutely but lasts longer than two weeks is defined to be persistent. Revised estimates in developing countries including India showed that acute diarrhoea accounts for 35 per cent, dysentery 20 per cent and non-dysenteric persistent diarrhoea (PD) for 45 per cent of total diarrhoeal deaths. PD also often changes marginal malnutrition to more severe forms. Factors that incr...

This is a review of existing data on the burden of shigellosis in Thailand to determine trends, vulnerable groups, predominant species and serotypes, and antimicrobial resistance patterns. Diarrhoea and dysentery morbidity and mortality data from 1991 to 1999 was collected from the routine surveillance system and demographic data from the government census. International and local literature pu...

In the Campbell Hospital I have been observing the effects of Hydrarg37ri Sulphidum Nigrum and of Hydrargyri Sulphidum Rubrum in cases of chronic dysentery and chronic liver complaints for over two years. Hydrargyri Sulphidum Nigrum is prepared by rubbing together equal parts of mercury and sulphur. When this chemical compound is heated just to allow the sulphur to melt, the fused mass becomes ...

Nalidixic acid (NA: 55 mg/kg daily for 5 days) is the recommended treatment for uncomplicated bacillary dysentery in areas where multidrug-resistant Shigella are prevalent. An open randomized comparison of this NA regimen with 2 doses of ofloxacin (total 15 mg/kg) was conducted in 1995/96 in 135 Vietnamese children with fever and bloody diarrhoea. Sixty-six children with a bacterial pathogen is...

To evaluate the management of severe dysentery cases in in-patient facilities during an epidemic of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), and to identify the factors associated with the risk of death, we conducted a prospective cohort study in 10 Rwandese hospitals between September and December 1994. Data were obtained from 849 cases admitted to hospitals with diarrhoea and visible blood in stool...

Terminalia belerica (behada) fruit has been evaluated as a promising agent against E. histolytica and a variety of bacteria associated with dysentery and diarrhoea. These in vitro studies were extended further for evaluating clinical efficacy among patients of acute and chronic cases of diarrhoea and dysentery. The Studies were carried out on 25 patients by five medical practitioners practicing...