Objective The aim of the study was to assess undernutrition and factors associated with, among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Methods Facility-based cross-sectional study design was implemented. Data were collected using pretested structured questionnaire at ART service site. Basic descriptive statistics were computed. Bivariate and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether medical intensive care unit (ICU) patients receiving nasoduodenal (ND) feedings achieve optimal nutritional support and better clinical outcomes compared with patients receiving nasogastric (NG) feedings. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, clinical study. SETTING Medical ICU of a university-affiliated tertiary medical center. PATIENTS One hundred twenty-one m...

Prolonged diarrhea is usually defined as acute-onset diarrhea lasting 7 days or more, but less than 14 days. Its trend has been declining in recent years because of improvement in the management of acute diarrhea, which represents the ideal strategy to prevent prolonged diarrhea. The pathogenesis of prolonged diarrhea is multifactorial and essentially based on persistent mucosal damage due to s...

BACKGROUND Plasma citrulline is a biomarker of enterocyte mass and function in humans. OBJECTIVE We evaluated citrulline in the reemerging context of diarrhea in HIV-infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. DESIGN This study prospectively measured citrulline in 6 groups of HIV-1 patients (n = 115): 1) undetectable viral load without chronic diarrhea (a; n = 40) and ...

28 Antigenic group 2 coronavirus was detected in a fecal sample of an adult alpaca by RT-PCR. The 29 presence of alpaca coronavirus (ApCoV) in the small intestine was demonstrated by immune30 histochemistry using an anti-nucleocapsid monoclonal antibody that reacts with group 2 31 coronaviruses. Other common causes of diarrhea in adult camelids were not detected. We conclude 32 that nutritional...

Antigenic group 2 coronavirus was detected in a fecal sample of an adult alpaca by reverse transcription-PCR. The presence of alpaca coronavirus (ApCoV) in the small intestine was demonstrated by immune histochemistry with an antinucleocapsid monoclonal antibody that reacts with group 2 coronaviruses. Other common causes of diarrhea in adult camelids were not detected. We conclude that nutritio...

Introduction. A decrease in nutrition of cancer patients affects all vital functions the body, which is, according to numerous studies, typical with gastrointestinal disturbances. Materials and methods. The study was set out investigate effect correcting protein-energy malnutrition on symptoms manifestation, including pain, fatigue, sleep disorder, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, constipation ...