A study is made of the environmental, etiologic, pathogenic, clinical and anatomical characteristics of the bacterial or parasitic enteral processes which most frequently cause death to the patients. Considerations on the pathogenesis of the complications found at the postmortem studies in children with diarrhea are likewise offered.
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