Nutritional status and diarrhoeal pathogen in hospitalized children in Bangladesh.
We studied the relationship between nutritional status and infection due to specific enteropathogens in young children with diarrhoea. Overall, 26% of the children were severely underweight, 27% were severely wasted and 19% were severely stunted. Children with Shigellae and V. cholerae O1 were significantly more severely underweight, wasted and stunted than those with rotavirus diarrhoea (p < 0.0001). Our results indicate that an effective nutrition programme for young children might have greater impact on diarrhoeal illness caused by Shigella and V. cholerae than by rotavirus diarrhoea.
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
Faruque
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Fuchs
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D017677:Age Distribution; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003625:Data Collection; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009752:Nutritional Status; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012307:Risk Factors; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*