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Am J Trop Med Hyg
December 2023
Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria.
Diarrhea is a leading cause of childhood morbidity in Africa, but few studies, focus on bacterial diarrheal etiology including multicountry studies that typically excluded Nigeria. We collected stool specimens from 477 children under 5 years of age, 120 with diarrhea, who were enrolled in our prospective case-control study between November 2015 and August 2019. All were attending primary health clinics on the northern outskirts of Ibadan.
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October 2023
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bacteriology-Immunology Team, Agrobiology Research Unit, University of Science and Technology of Masuku (USTM), Franceville BP 067, Gabon.
Diarrhea is a condition that particularly affects children under five the age of years old in developing countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of medicinal extracts plants used in treatment and to characterize their inhibitory capacity in the growth of bacteria isolates in childhood diarrhea in the southeast region of Gabon. An ethnobotanical survey on the plants used in the treatment of diarrhea in southeastern Gabon was carried out and a phytochemical screening of the collected plants was performed.
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July 2023
Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: Diarrhoea is the second most common cause of death among children under the age of five worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating diarrhoea with oral rehydration therapy, intravenous fluids for severe dehydration, and zinc supplements. Antibiotics are only recommended to treat acute, invasive diarrhoea.
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July 2023
Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
Antimicrobials are only indicated in acute childhood diarrhea if it is invasive or persistent. Rapid screening for invasive diarrhea can therefore inform treatment decisions but pathogen identification by culture is slow, expensive and cumbersome. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic utility of stool microscopy and immunochromatographic fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits for identifying invasive or potentially invasive diarrhea in Ibadan, Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMinerva Gastroenterol (Torino)
December 2021
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Gut microbiota plays a vital role in human health. The number of microorganisms inhabiting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract has been estimated to exceed 10. The dominant genera in the human intestine are Firmicutes (more than 180 species of Lactobacillus), Actinobacteria (among others the Bifidobacteriae), Bacteroidetes (the most important is B.
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