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Viral and toxin induced acute diarrhea in children

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

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Clinical & Chemical Pathology

Advisors

El-Khouli, Amani , Gaafar, Maha , Adel, Maryam

Authors

El-Mahdi, Yasmin Adel M.

Accessioned

2017-07-12 06:40:25

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2017-07-12 06:40:25

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M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

Every year more than one billion diarrhea episodes occur among childrenyounger than 5 years of age. Most of cases occur in socioeconomically developingcountries causing 2 to 2.5 million deaths. Over one year from November 2009 toSeptember 2010 the prevalence of enteric viruses and toxin inducing agent werestudied in 80 successive cases of children less than 9 years of age. It was found thatviral etiology was identified in 48.8%, bacterial etiology in 2.5% and mixed in7.5%.Viral etiology was more predominant than bacterial and toxin- mediateddiarrhea in our study. Rotavirus was the most prevalent cause of viralgastroenteritis, contributing to 55.3% of total isolated viruses, and most frequentlyidentified pathogen in urban and rural areas, followed by norovirus, andadenovirus. The peak age group for all viruses including rotavirus was less than 2years.

Issued

1 Jan 2012

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/35416

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Thesis

Created At

28 Jan 2023