Isolation of Entamoeba histolytica from arthritic knee joint.

Amoebae were isolated from an arthritic knee of a male patient. The organisms grew in Egg Yolk Infusion medium, and in Diamond's Biosate Iron-Serum-33 medium, which contained Trypanosoma cruzi, and were identified microscopically as Entamoeba histolytica. Furthermore, amoebae-like organisms in aspirate and cultures were immunocytochemically identified using monoclonal antibodies against E.

Epidemiology and aetiology of acute childhood diarrhoea in Burma: a rural community survey.

Identical epidemiological and microbiological surveys were carried out in a rural community at Intakaw, Burma, in 2 months, one in the hot wet and the other in the cool dry season. The incidence of diarrhoea was highest in children under 3 years old and in the hot wet month when enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli was the predominant pathogen. Rotavirus was the commonest pathogen in the cool dry month but was absent in the hot wet month.

Oral rehydration therapy in the home by village mothers in Burma.

Acceptability and effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) when given by mothers in the home under village conditions was investigated in six (two control and four test) communities at Htauk-kyant near Rangoon, Burma. The control and test village communities had populations of 2085 and 4278 respectively, of which 218 and 623 were children under five. In the test villages, Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) were made constantly available by providing each household with one packet of ORS, which was replenished whenever a used packet was returned to the field workers during their daily surveillance rounds.