Bacterial and Parasitic Profile of Acute Infectious Pediatric Diarrhoea and the Role of Faecal Screening Tests in Prediction of The Invasive Type of Diarrhoea
| Autor: | Hadir Mahmoud El Kady, Soryia Aly El-Shazly, Abeer Aly Omar, Amal Abd El Fattah El Sahn, Ahmed Abd El Salam Madkour |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of High Institute of Public Health, Vol 40, Iss 1, Pp 41-58 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2357-0601 2357-061X |
| DOI: | 10.21608/JHIPH.2010.20588 |
| Popis: | Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide. Faecal screening methods as detection of faecal leucocytes, faecal lactoferrin and faecal occult blood, have diagnostic and therapeutic implications in the provisional diagnosis of invasive diarrhea before culture results made available. Aim of the work was to outline the bacterial and parasitic profile of acute pediatric diarrhoea and to evaluate faecal screening tests in preliminary diagnosis of invasive diarrhoea. Three hundred children under five years of age, suffering from acute diarrhoea ( |
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