The frequency of culturing stools from adults with diarrhoea in Great Britain
| Autor: | R. A. Feldman, N. Banatvala |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Adult
Diarrhea Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epidemiology Population Feces Sex Factors Risk Factors Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio medicine Humans Risk factor education Aged Analysis of Variance Bacteriological Techniques education.field_of_study business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Age Factors Odds ratio Middle Aged Health Surveys United Kingdom Confidence interval Infectious Diseases Multivariate Analysis Female Antacids medicine.symptom business Regional differences Research Article Demography |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection. 113:41-44 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 0950-2688 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s095026880005144x |
| Popis: | SUMMARYUtilizing the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) Omnibus Survey, it was possible to measure the frequency with which a stool culture was obtained following episodes of diarrhoea in adults. Interviewing over 8000 adults, over a 4-month period between October 1992 and January 1993, 633 persons (7·9%) reported one episode of diarrhoea in the previous month, and 5·4 % of these individuals with diarrhoea reported that a stool had been requested for examination. No significant regional differences were observed with the sample size available. The estimate of the rate of diarrhoea in adults was just under one episode per person per year. |
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