Etiology of diarrhea in a rural community in western Thailand: importance of enteric viruses and enterovirulent Escherichia coli.

The etiology of gastroenteritis was determined in children and adults with diarrhea seen at a district hospital and three government health clinics in Suan Phung, western Thailand, in 1991. Enteric viruses (rotavirus and astrovirus) were identified in 40%, shigellae in 18%, attaching and effacing Escherichia coli in 13%, Campylobacter jejuni in 9%, and enterotoxigenic E. coli in 7% of children < 5 years old with diarrhea seen at the hospital.

Ciprofloxacin and loperamide in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

Objective: To compare the safety and efficacy of loperamide plus ciprofloxacin with those of ciprofloxacin alone in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

Design: Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Hospital in Thailand.

Schistosoma incognitum and its zoonotic potential role in Phitsanulok and Phichit provinces, northern Thailand.

A study on Schistosoma incognitum, a blood fluke of a variety of mammals, was conducted in different ecological conditions in Phitsanulok and Phichit, northern Thailand. The intermediate host of S. incognitum in permanent water habitats studied, i.

Kaeng Khoi virus from naturally infected bedbugs (cimicidae) and immature free-tailed bats.

Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand. The data implicate bedbugs as possible vectors of this virus.