Bacterial, viral and parasitic aetiology of paediatric diarrhoea in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
| Autor: | A Javati, S Lupiwa, A Atkinson, M Mens, Michael P. Alpers, Neal Alexander, B. West, Peter Howard, A. Clegg, R. C. Sanders, T Lupiwa, G Saleu, G Gerega, M. Kajoi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Diarrhea
Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty Population medicine.disease_cause Microbiology Feces Internal medicine Rotavirus parasitic diseases Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Humans Medicine Shigella Intestinal Diseases Parasitic Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Child education Developing Countries New Guinea education.field_of_study biology business.industry Incidence Campylobacter Infant Newborn Infant Bacterial Infections Prognosis biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Cryptosporidium parvum Virus Diseases Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 46:10-14 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3664 0142-6338 |
| Popis: | Enteropathogens and clinical features associated with diarrhoea were investigated in 1526 children admitted over a 5-year period to the paediatric ward of a hospital in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Overall, a recognized pathogen was isolated from 39 per cent of the children admitted with diarrhoea. The most commonly isolated agents were rotavirus (23 per cent), Shigella spp. (13 per cent), Campylobacter spp. (12 per cent), Cryptosporidium parvum (10 per cent) and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (8 per cent). The clearest clinical associations were rotavirus with vomiting, and Shigella with blood and pus in the stool. A control series of children admitted with other complaints was also included, and the odds ratios for diarrhoea for the above five pathogens were 18.2, 9.6, 3.7, 2.2, and 1.6, respectively. |
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