| age specific aetiological agents of diarrhoea in hospitalized children aged less than five years in dar es salaam, tanzania. | this study aimed to determine the age-specific aetiologic agents of diarrhoea in children aged less than five years. the study also assessed the efficacy of the empiric treatment of childhood diarrhoea using integrated management of childhood illness (imci) guidelines. | 2011 | 21345186 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of vibrio cholerae o1 strains during two cholera outbreaks in dar es salaam, tanzania. | to determine and compare the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of vibrio cholerae 01 strains, which were isolated in two cholera epidemics in 1997 and 1999 in dar es salaam. | 2000 | 12862151 |
| hospital outbreaks of cholera transmitted through close person-to-person contact. | three hospital outbreaks of cholera which started in a children's infectious diseases ward in dar es salaam in 1977/78, 1981, and 1983 were controlled by bacteriological screening and isolation of infected patients, administration of antibacterial chemoprophylaxis to all at-risk patients and their accompanying relatives, and by reducing overcrowding. the outbreaks in 1981 and 1983 were caused by two distinct multiply antibiotic resistant e1 tor vibrio cholerae o1 strains. in these three outbreak ... | 1984 | 6146017 |