New and old agents in diarrhea; a prospective study of an indigenous adult African population.
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1978Author
Hansen, DP
Kaminsky, RG
Bagg, R
Kapikian, AZ
Slack, RCB
Sack, DA
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In Nairobi, Kenya, 77 adults with acute diarrhoea were studied in an attempt to determine the major pathogens responsible. Amoebic dysentery was not seen although haemagglutination-inhibition tests for invasive Entamoeba histolytica were positive in 4 inpatients. One patient had a heavy parasitaemia with Plasmodium falciparum. It is concluded that recognizable aetiological agents are associated with most diarrhoeal illnesses but that these illnesses are not commonly due to amoebiasis.
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http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19780848976.html?resultNumber=13&start=10&q=au%3A%22Kaminsky%2C+R.+G.%22http://hdl.handle.net/11295/88054
Citation
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1978 Vol. 27 No. 3 pp. 609-615Publisher
University of Nairobi
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