Diarrhea after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be life-threatening, and its etiology includes conditioning regimens, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), infections, and transplantation-associated microangiopathy (iTAM). Cord colitis syndrome (CCS) has been described as a syndrome of culture-negative and antibiotic-responsive persistent watery and non-bloody diarrhea of uncertai...

abstract background and objectives: diarrhea is one of the main cases of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries. enteroaggregative escherichia coli (eaggec) is an emerging diarrheal pathogen that has been associated characteristically with persistent diarrhea among infants, particularly in the developing counties. therefore, we decided to study the prevalence of enteroag...

background : enteroaggregative e. coli (eaec) is increasingly recognized as a cause of often persistent diarrhea in children and adults in both developing and developed countries. the aim of the present study was to investigate the presence and the frequency of eaec as etiologic agent of diarrhea in shiraz. methods : a total of 715 stool samples were collected from patients with diarrhea in shi...

Clostridium difficile infection is associated with broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy and is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospital patients. Pathogenic strains of C. difficile produce two protein exotoxins, toxin A and toxin B, which cause colonic mucosal injury and inflammation. Infection may be asymptomatic, cause mild diarrhea, or result in severe pseudomembranous colitis. ...

A quasi-Poisson generalized linear model combined with a distributed lag non-linear model was used to quantify the main effect of temperature on emergency department visits (EDVs) for childhood diarrhea in Brisbane from 2001 to 2010. Residual of the model was checked to examine whether there was an added effect due to heat waves. The change over time in temperature-diarrhea relation was also as...

PATIENT Male, 63 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Cytomegalo virus (CMV) infection Symptoms: Diarrhea Medication:- Clinical Procedure:- Specialty: Infectious Diseases. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND Coinfection with cytomegalovirus in a patient with Clostridium difficile persistent diarrhea and colitis can lead to a delay in diagnosis and treatment. CASE REPORT A 63-year-old man with squam...

JUSTIFICATION Diarrhea that lasts for more than two weeks is a common cause of mortality and morbidity in infants and children. There is a need to update the information available on this subject in Indian context. PROCESS This review has analyzed the available published data on the subject with particular focus on developing countries. It has also outlined the current diagnostic and manageme...

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile is a leading hospital-acquired infection. Many patients remain symptomatic for several days on appropriate antibiotic therapy. To assess the contribution of ongoing infection vs persistent inflammation, we examined the correlation between fecal cytokine levels, fecal C. difficile burden, and disease outcomes in C. difficile infection (CDI). METHODS We conducte...

Chronic diarrhea is a major problem in pediatric patients because it induces malnutrition, general developmental defects, and an extremely death. Thus, important to make accurate diagnosis, find definite etiologies, apply proper treatments.