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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from patients at a hospital in Dacca
Enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli, a significant cause of acute, watery, cholera-like diarrhea, were isolated from 23 of 65 patients with diarrhea in whom no other enteric pathogens were found during one week (November... -
Expected reductions in fetal and infant mortality by prolonged pregnancy spacing in rural Bangladesh
The effect of pregnancy spacing on fetal and infant survivorship is explored using a life table method. The proportions of detected pregnancies surviving to term and to the beginning of the second year of life are cal... -
Malnutrition,menarche and marraige in rural Bangladesh
In order to assess the impact of nutritional status on the onset of menarche and the association between age at menarche and age at marriage, a survey of 1155 girls, ages 10 through 20, was conducted in a ru... -
Cholera transmission near a cholera hospital
A review of the incidence of cholera from 1964 through 1974 in Matlab, Bangladesh, revealed that among the villages several had very high incidence-rates. Investigation indicated that high cholera-rates in two of these villages ... -
Failure of sanitary wells to protect against cholera and other diarrhoeas in Bangladesh
Within an area of Bangladesh in which the incidence of cholera was high, use of sanitary pipe wells did not protect against cholera or related non-cholera diarrhoeas because well users also used contaminated water sources ... -
Nutritional status: a determinant of severity of diarrhea in patients with cholera
The severity of diarrhea and nutritional status were measured in a prospective study of 97 patients hospitalized with cholera in Dacca, Bangladesh. Ninety-five percent of both adults and children were below their respective medians&... -
Pulmonary oedema associated with acidosis in patients with cholera
Five patients with severe acidosis and pulmonary oedema complicating cholera were seen at the Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, in a two-year period. All had had inadequate treatment. Their disease resulted in acidosis prior to&#x... -
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Reovirus-like agent in rural Bangladesh
48 patients admitted to a rural Bangladesh hospital with dehydration secondary to diarrhea were examined for infection caused by (R.L.A.) reovirus-like agent or (E.T.E.C.) enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. The diagnosis of R.L.A. infection&#x... -
Shiga bacillus dysentery associated with marked leukocytosis and erythrocyte fragmentation
Granulocytic leukemoid reactions (white blood cell counts greater than 50,000 with myelocytes and promyelocytes in the peripheral blood) were documented in 15 per cent of 273 patients with dysentery due to Shigella dysenteriae, type... -
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and idiopathic diarrhoea in Bangladesh
Faecal Escherichia coli from Bangalee patients with idiopathic diarrhoea were tested in the Chinese hamster ovary cell (C.H.O.) assay to detect production of thermolabile enterotoxin (L.T.). C.H.O-positive E. coli produce both L.T. and&#...
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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
- 1990 - 1999 751
- 1980 - 1989 544
- 1970 - 1979 143
- 1961 - 1969 60