title: Changing patient population in Dhaka Hospital and Matlab Hospital of icddr,b.
abstract: The Diarrhoeal Disease Surveillance System of icddr,b noted increasing number of patients ≥60 years at urban Dhaka and rural Matlab from 2001 to 2012. Shigella and Vibrio cholerae were more frequently isolated from elderly people than children under 5 years and adults aged 5-59 in both areas. The resistance observed to various drugs of Shigella in Dhaka and Matlab was trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (72-63%), ampicillin (43-55%), nalidixic acid (58-61%), mecillinam (12-9%), azithromycin (13-0%), ciprofloxacin (11-13%) and ceftriaxone (11-0%). Vibrio cholerae isolated in Dhaka and Matlab was resistant to trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (98-94%), furazolidone (100%), erythromycin (71-53%), tetracycline (46-44%), ciprofloxacin (3-10%) and azithromycin (3-0%).
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Chisti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Malek
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Salam
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Bardhan
authors.forename: A S G
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Faruque
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002771:Cholera / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D012760:Shigella; D014733:Vibrio; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
keywords: Bangladesh; diarrhoea; elderly; rural; urban