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• Topic: Bacillary Dysentery.
• Bacillary Dysentery. ...
• "Bacillary Dysentery. ... Danbury: Grolier Dysentery, 1992. ...
• Shigellosis (Bacillary Dysentery). ...
• Bacillary Dysentery. ...
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• Dysentery .
• Dysentery is general term for a group of diseases which trigger inflammation of the lining of the large intestines, leading to stomach pains, and diarrhoea, and possibly vomiting and fever. ...
• Untreated dysentery can be a killer. ...
• The bacterium Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1) causes a particularly severe form of the disease known as epidemic dysentery. ...
• Three other types of of bacteria from the Shigella family - Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei and Shigella boydii - can also cause dysentery, but usually these forms are less dangerous, and do not cause large epidemics. ...
• The main symptom of epidemic dysentery is bloody diarrhoea. ...
• Approximately 5-15% of epidemic dysentery cases are fatal. ...
• Are there other forms of dysentery? .
• Amoebic dysentery is caused by a tiny parasitic creature called an amoeba. ...
• Why is dysentery dangerous? .
• The diarrhoea associated with dysentery means that people suffering from the condition are likely to lose a large amount of important salts and fluids from the body. ...
• Dysentery is highly contagious. ...
• Dysentery often poses a major threat in crowded areas with inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and limited supplies of safe water. ...
• In adults, dysentery caused by bacteria usually subsides spontaneously. ...

• dysentery.
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• dysentery (dÄ­s'É™ntÄ•r'Ä“) , inflammation of the intestine characterized by the frequent passage of feces, usually with blood and mucus. The two most common causes of dysentery are infection with a bacillus (see bacteria) of the Shigella group, and infestation by an ameba, Entamoeba histolytica. Both bacillary and amebic dysentery are spread by fecal contamination of food and water and are most common where sanitation is poor. ...
• Bacillary Dysentery.
• It is estimated that in some parts of the tropics 80% of the children acquire bacillary dysentery before the age of five; the mortality rate is high among infants and the aged if the infection is not treated, preferably with a broad-spectrum antibiotic. In adults bacillary dysentery usually subsides spontaneously, but treatment is desirable to prevent recurrence.
• Amebic Dysentery.
• Amebic dysentery is prevalent in regions where human excrement is used as fertilizer; in some such regions over half the population probably harbors the amebic cyst. ... If these remain within the lumen of the intestine they are relatively innocuous, but if they invade the intestinal wall they cause ulceration, dysentery, and usually pain. ...
• Amebic dysentery may occur in acute or chronic form. ... Abcesses of the liver and brain are especially dangerous; destruction of liver tissue is the most frequent complication of amebic dysentery. ...
• A combination of drugs is generally used to treat amebic dysentery: an amebicide (metronidazole or tinidazole) to eliminate the organism from the intestinal tract, an antibiotic to eradicate associated bacterial infection, and a drug to combat infection of the liver and other tissues. ...
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• DYSENTERY.
• DYSENTERY (from the Gr. ... Although at one time a common disease in Great Britain, dysentery is now very rarely met with there, and is for the most part confined to warm countries, where it is the cause of a large amount of mortality. ...
• Recently considerable advance has been made in our knowledge of dysentery, and it appears that there are two distinct types of the disease: (1) amoebic dysentery, which is due to the presence of tile amoeba histolytica (of Schaudinn) in the intestine; (2) bacillary dysentery, which has as causative agent two separate bacteria, (a) that discovered by Shiga in Japan, (b) that discovered by Flexner in the Philippine Islands. ...
• Clinically, dysentery manifests itself with varying degrees of intensity, and it is often impossible without microscopical examination to determine between the amoebic and bacillary forms. ...
• The dysentery poison appears to exert its effects upon the glandular structures of the large intestine, particularly in its lower part. ... Should the disease be arrested these ulcers may heal entirely, but occasionally they remain, causing more or less disorganization of the coats of the intestines, as is often found in chronic dysentery. ...
• In amoebic dysentery, warm injections of quinine per rectum have proved very efficacious, are usually well tolerated,, and are not attended with any ill effects. ...
• (1907), Dysentery, Drs Andrew Davidson and Simon Flexner; Davidson, Hygiene and Diseases of Warm Climates (Edinburgh, 1903); Fearnside in md. ... Pottinger, Appendicostomy in Chronic Dysentery, Lancet (December 28, 1907); Robert Doerr, Das Dysenterietoxin (Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1907); F. ... Sandwith, Hunterian Lecture on the Treatment of Dysentery, Lancet (December 7, 1907).
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• Dysentery is a severe diarrhea illness often associated with blood in the feces. ...
• There are two major types: shigellosis, which is caused by one of several types of Shigella bacteria; and amoebic dysentery, which is caused by the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. ...
• Amoebic dysentery .
• Amoebic dysentery is transmitted by contaminated water, and is well known as a "travellers dysentery", although it is occasionally seen in industrialized countries. ...
• dysentery.

• Dysentery Bug Wields 'Sword and Shield' .
• 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientists have discovered why the body's immune system puts up so little fight against the gastronintestinal scourge dysentery.
• Dysentery, also known as shigellosis, is especially prevalent in the tropics and is caused by infection with the Shigella bacterium, usually through contaminated water or food. ...
• Tang said the discovery "greatly expands our understanding of how bacteria are sometimes able to evolve, although it is unlikely to result in new treatments or vaccines for dysentery. In this case, the dysentery bacteria has evolved into a highly effective and dangerous infection. ...
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• Translation of dysentery.
• dysentery .
• dysentery in German is Ruhr.
• dysentery in Hungarian is vérhas.
• dysentery in Spanish is disentería.
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• Figure 2: Monthly Notifications in 1998 and the Monthly Means of Past 5 Years (1993-1997) for Selected Notification Infectious Diseases For January 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 48. For January of 1993-1997, the mean number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 30. ... For February 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 26. For February of 1993-1997, the mean number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 30. ... For March 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 20. For March of 1993-1997, the mean number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 26. For April 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 27. For April of 1993-1997, the mean number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 27. ... For May 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 17. For May of 1993-1997, the mean number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 26. ... For June 1998, the number of notifications of bacillary dysentery was 44.

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• Medical practitioners' knowledge of dysentery treatment in Bangladesh .
• 1 2 To assess medical practitioners' knowledge of treatment for dysentery and whether their knowledge is influenced by their training, we interviewed four groups of medical practitioners in Bangladesh and compared the treatment that they recommended with what is advocated by the World Health Organisation. ...
• Drug dispensers in Matlab were more likely to recommend use of multiple antibiotics or use of metronidazole or furazolidone (two drugs not indicated for treating dysentery in children) and were less likely to recommend oral rehydration solution than were the other groups of medical practitioners. ...
• Table 1--Treatment for childhood dysentery recommended by different groups of medical practitioners in Bangladesh. ...
• 5 For this evaluation, we considered ampicillin and co-trimoxazole to be appropriate treatments as they were among the drugs recommended by the WHO for treating dysentery. ... We are uncertain why metronidazole and furazolidone were still so popular despite both drugs being ineffective against bacillary dysentery and abundant evidence that amoebiasis is an extremely uncommon cause of dysentery in children. ...
• 2 If treatment of common illnesses such as dysentery is to improve, drug dispensers' knowledge of their management and knowledge of common pathogens' susceptibility to antibiotics must be improved. ...
• Current practices for treatment of dysentery in rural Bangladesh. ...
• Diagnosis and management of dysentery by community health workers. ...
• Treating dysentery with metronidazole in Pakistan Tariq Iqbal Bhutta and Agnes Vitry.
• Inappropriate treatment for dysentery.
• Treating dysentery with metronidazole in Pakistan.

• Bacillary dysentery as a causative factor of irritable bowel syndrome and its pathogenesis .
• Background and aims: The incidence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or functional bowel disorders (FBD) after bacillary dysentery (BD) has not been extensively evaluated, and little is known of the pathogenesis of post-infective (PI) IBS. ...
• Abbreviations: BD, bacillary dysentery; FBD, functional bowel disorder; IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; IL, interleukin; IL-1ra, interleukin 1 receptor antagonist; PI, post-infective; RT-PCR, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; NSE, neurone specific enolase; SP, substance P; CGRP, calcitonin gene related peptide; 5-HT, 5-hydroxytryptamine; SA-HRP, streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase; PBS, phosphate buffered saline.
• Keywords: irritable bowel syndrome; functional bowel disorder; bacillary dysentery; interleukin; mast cells; enteric nerve fibres.

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