| epidemiologic patterns of acute diarrhea and endemic shigella infections in children in a poor periurban setting in santiago, chile. | to prepare a field site for evaluating preventive interventions against endemic shigellosis, the authors followed prospectively a cohort of 360 children (90 each of children aged 0-11, 12-23, 24-35, and 36-47 months) in santa julia, a low socioeconomic area in santiago, chile, from november 1986 through april 1989 with twice weekly household visits for diarrheal disease; infants replaced children who reached 60 months of age. coprocultures on 2 consecutive days from children with diarrhea and fr ... | 1991 | 1951266 |
| enteropathogens associated with acute diarrhea in hospitalized infants. | thirty-five infants of low socioeconomic status who were living in urban santiago were hospitalized for acute diarrhea were prospectively evaluated for the presence of enteropathogens associated with the episode. some degree of malnutrition was evident in 20 infants (57.1%); 15 of these (75%) were under 6 months of age. mean duration of the hospital stay was 11.8 days for well-nourished patients and 15.7 days for the malnourished patients. one or more enteropathogens were found in 60% of the cas ... | 1986 | 3007718 |
| population-based study of the incidence of shigella diarrhea and causative serotypes in santiago, chile. | shigella is an important cause of diarrheal disease in children in developing countries. the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains has stimulated interest in the use of multivalent shigella vaccines. because shigella vaccines under development are based on eliciting immunity to o antigens, monitoring the distribution of serotypes in defined target populations is critical. we initiated health center-based surveillance in a poor semirural community in colina, santiago (7489 childre ... | 1999 | 10391178 |