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Modelling the effect of malaria endemicity on spatial variations in childhood fever, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Malawi. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: Co-morbidity with conditions such as fever, diarrhoea and pneumonia is a common phenomenon in tropical Africa. However, little is known about geographical overlaps in these illnesses.
Muula, Adamson S, Kazembe, Lawrence N, Kleinschmidt, Immo, Kleinschmidt Immo, Appleton Christopher C, Muula Adamson S, Appleton, Christopher C, Kazembe Lawrence N   +7 more
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Diarrhoea in critical care patients: focus on special issues

Italian Journal of Medicine, 2013
BACKGROUND Diarrhoea is common in critically ill patients, especially in elderly subjects during antibiotic therapy and enteral feeding. The management of diarrhoea includes generous hydration, compensation for the loss of electrolytes, antidiarrhoeal ...
Maurizio Ventrucci, Paolo Pozzato
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A multicentre study of Shigella diarrhoea in six Asian countries: disease burden, clinical manifestations, and microbiology. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: The burden of shigellosis is greatest in resource-poor countries. Although this diarrheal disease has been thought to cause considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of 1,000,000 deaths globally per year, little recent data are available
Talukder Kaisar, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Mohammad Ali, Seidlein, Lorenz von, Thiem, Vu Dinh, Deen Jacqueline L, Lee Hyejon, Deen, Jacqueline L, Kotloff, Karen, Nair G. B, G B Nair, Sethabutr Ornthipa, Lorenz von Seidlein, Hossain, Anowar, Talukder, Kaisar, Do Gia Canh, Canh Do Gia, Xuanyi Wang, Mason Carl, Ali, Mohammad, Ali Mohammad, Kim Deok Ryun, Magdarina D Agtini, von Seidlein Lorenz, Sethabutr, Ornthipa, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Karen Kotloff, Wanpen Chaicumpa, Agtini Magdarina D, Agtini, Magdarina D, Bhutta Zulfiqar A, Thiem Vu Dinh, Wang XuanYi, Vu Dinh Thiem, John Clemens, Hossain Anowar, Wang, Xuanyi, Nair, GB, Deok Ryun Kim, Ornthipa Sethabutr, Kaisar Talukder, Lee, Hyejon, Clemens, John, Jacqueline L Deen, Canh, Do Gia, Carl Mason, Mason, Carl, Chaicumpa Wanpen, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Clemens John, Agtini, Magdarina D., Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Kim, Deok Ryun, Nair, G. B., Chaicumpa, Wanpen, Hyejon Lee, Kotloff Karen, Anowar Hossain, Deen, Jacqueline L.   +58 more
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Rotavirus infections and climate variability in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a time-series analysis. [PDF]

, 2007
Attempts to explain the clear seasonality of rotavirus infections have been made by relating disease incidence to climate factors; however, few studies have disentangled the effects of weather from other factors that might cause seasonality.
Armstrong, B, Sack, DA, Faruque, A S G, Wagatsuma, Y, Faruque, ASG, Hashizume, M, Hayashi, T, Wagatsuma, Yukiko, Hayashi, Taiichi, Armstrong, Ben, Hashizume, Masahiro, Sack, David A   +11 more
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Bile Acid Induced Diarrhoea Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects [PDF]

, 2008
A common cause for referral to gastroenterologists is chronic watery diarrhoea. Approximately 40% of these patients have idiopathic bile acid malabsorption (BAM) – a condition with unknown aetiology.
Bajor, Antal
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A novel method for rapidly diagnosing the causes of diarrhoea [PDF]

, 2004
Background: The microbiological diagnosis of infectious diarrhoea may take several days using conventional techniques. In order to determine whether flatus can be used to make a rapid diagnosis, the volatile organic compounds associated with diarrhoea ...
Probert, C. S J, Ratcliffe, Norman M., Probert, C. S. J., Jones, P. R H   +3 more
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Antibacterial, Mutagenic Properties and Chemical Characterisation of Sugar Bush (Protea caffra Meisn.): A South African Native Shrub Species

Plants, 2020
Protea caffra is used as a diarrhoeal remedy in South African herbal medicine, however, its pharmacological properties remain largely unknown. In the present study, extracts from different Protea caffra organs were screened against drug-sensitive and ...
McMaster Vambe, Adeyemi O. Aremu, Jude C. Chukwujekwu, Jiri Gruz, Andrea Luterová, Jeffrey F. Finnie, Johannes Van Staden   +6 more
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Oral rehydration therapy in childhood diarrhoea : how educated are caregivers? [PDF]

, 2009
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-58).Thirty years ago, oral rehydration therapy (ORT) was hailed as potentially the most significant medical advance of the century. Dehydration from diarrhoea killed approximately 5 million
Koning, Lizanne
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Emerging trends in the etiology of enteric pathogens as evidenced from an active surveillance of hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata, India [PDF]

, 2010
Background: This study was conducted to determine the etiology of diarrhoea in a hospital setting in Kolkata. Active surveillance was conducted for 2 years on two random days per week by enrolling every fifth diarrhoeal patient admitted to the Infectious
Gopinath Nair, Rajendran, Krishnan, Saha Dhira, Manna Byomkesh, Takeda Yoshifumi, Krishnan, Triveni, Triveni Krishnan, Bhattacharya Mihir, Keinosuke Okamoto, Ramamurthy Thandavarayan, Krishnan Triveni, Sandipan Ganguly, Yoshifumi Takeda, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Mihir Bhattacharya, Nair, Gopinath Balakrish, Mrinmoy Ghosh, Manna, Byomkesh, Rajendran Krishnan, Nair Gopinath, Bhattacharya, Mihir Kumar, Saha, Dhira R., Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan, Okamoto, Keinosuke, Takeda, Yoshifumi, Nair, Gopinath B., Ghosh Mrinmoy, Dhira Saha, Ghosh, Mrinmoy, Bhattacharya, Mihir K., Okamoto Keinosuke, Ganguly Sandipan, Krishnan Rajendran, Byomkesh Manna, Saha, Dhira Rani, Ganguly, Sandipan   +35 more
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Assessment of knowledge of management of childhood diarrhoea among exclusively breastfeeding mothers in Oyo State, Nigeria

Academia Medicine and Health
Background: Over the years, Oral rehydration solution [ORS] and zinc supplementation have proven to be simple and effective interventions for diarrhoea management.
Roseline Akande, Oluwaseyi Israel, Roseline Ige, Bolaji Egbewale   +3 more
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