A. Original papers
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Endemic cholera in rural Bangladesh, 1966-1980
Since 1963, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), formerly the Cholera Research Laboratory, has maintained a field station in Matlab to treat patients from a surveillance population of 240,000 wh... -
Consumption of foods and nutrients by weanlings in rural Bangladesh
Longitudinal studies of the consumption of foods and nutrients by 70 children between 5 and 30 months of age have been completed, during 632 individual days of observation in rural village homes in Bangladesh. Foods and&#x... -
Age misstatement for young children in rural Bangladesh
Age data for 3,393 children, six years of age and under, in rural Bangladesh are analyzed for the level and pattern of age misstatement. Random error, age heaping at whole years, and preferences for particular ages ar... -
Clinical trial of ampicillin v. trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole in the treatment of Shigella dysentery
Following a nationwide outbreak of Shigella dysentery type 1 and the recognition of Shigella isolates resistant to ampicillin, the drug of choice, we conducted a clinical trial to compare the efficacy of ampicillin v. trimethop... -
Patterns of Shigella infection in families in rural Bangladesh
To assess the mode of transmission of Shigella infection in rural Bangladesh, questionnaire and culture surveys were conducted in baris (neighborhoods) where persons with diarrhea associated with Shigella infection and index controls wit... -
Seasonal changes in nutritional status and the prevalence of malnutrition in a longitudinal study of young children in rural Bangladesh
During longitudinal field studies of the growth, dietary intake, and morbidity from infectious diseases of children between 6 and 60 months of age in two rural villages of Bangladesh, seasonal fluctuations in growth, nutritional... -
Colonization of the oropharynx with Gram-negative bacilli in children with severe protein-calorie malnutrition
Oral pharyngeal isolation of Gram-negative bacteria was compared in four groups of Bengali children; acutely ill, severely malnourished outpatients swabbed on hospital admission; ill but less severely malnourished outpatients from the same&#x... -
Patterns of physical growth in a longitudinal study of young children in rural Bangladesh
Longitudinal field studies of the physical growth of 197 children between 6 and 60 months of age have been completed in two rural villages of Bangladesh. The distribution of weights by age indicated that 90% of the&#x... -
Salmonellosis at rural and urban clinics in Bangladesh: epidemiologic and clinical characteristics
The authors studied the frequency of diarrheal illness associated with non-typhi Salmonella at two clinics in Bangladesh for the years 1977-1979. Non-typhi salmonellae were isolated from 0.29% of fecal specimens or rectal swabs in&#... -
Epidemiologic and clinical features of patients infected with Shigella who attended a diarrheal disease hospital in Bangladesh
The epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of 412 patients infected with Shigella from a systematic sample of approximately 100,000 patients attending Dacca Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, between De... -
Endemic focus of Fasciolopsis buski infection in Bangladesh
Stool surveys were conducted on children 2--10 years of age in 27 villages within Dacca District and around this index area (1,668 children were sampled), revealing an endemic focus of Fasciolopsis buski infection to the s... -
The use of chlorpromazine in the treatment of cholera and other severe acute watery diarrheal diseases
Four hundred and ten patients with severe watery diarrhea; including 316 patients with cholera, were studied in a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled trial to determine if chlorpromazine (1 mg/kg) would be useful in th...
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Author
- Albert, M. John 120
- Mahalanabis, Dilip 84
- Sack, David A. 82
- Chakraborty, J. 71
- Faruque, A.S.G. 54
- Faruque, Shah M. 43
- Qadri, Firdausi 42
- Black, Robert E. 40
- Clemens, John D. 40
- Khan, M.R. 39
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Subject
- Bangladesh 1022
- Cholera 264
- Vibrio cholerae 186
- Diarrhea, Infantile 163
- Diarrhea 109
- Dysentery, Bacillary 108
- Humans 72
- Child, Preschool 71
- Shigella dysenteriae 64
- Diarrheal diseases 61
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- 2000 - 2009 305
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- 1980 - 1989 544
- 1970 - 1979 143
- 1961 - 1969 60