| etiology and epidemiology of diarrheal diseases in the united states. | accurate data on the frequency of acute diarrheal illness and the distribution of pathogens are not available for several reasons, including the facts that only a small fraction of cases come to the attention of physicians and that available diagnostic tests establish an etiology in only about half of these. in a survey of three groups of patients in a community (upper-middle class and lower class outpatients and hospitalized infants), a possible cause was found in fewer than 20 percent of outpa ... | 1985 | 3893118 |
| infestations and chronic infections in foreign pediatric patients with burns: is there a role for specific protocols? | infestations by parasites such as mycobacterium tuberculosis and other viral infections are common in third world countries. consequently, the admission of a significant number of foreign patients to burn centers in the united states may pose new problems, not only for inpatients but also for health care workers. to document infestations in patients from third world countries and to determine the need for specific protocols, we studied 62 consecutive foreign patients admitted to our pediatric bu ... | 1999 | 10613686 |
| intestinal parasites in children from three west texas border communities. | | 2004 | 15724569 |