| diagnosis of bacterial enteric infections in children in zambia. | the bacterial pathogens commonly responsible for diarrhea in children under the age of 5 in zambia were identified and the most effective methods of diagnosis of such infections in laboratories with limited resources, such as those in developing countries, are recommended. | 1998 | 9695302 |
| cholera epidemic associated with raw vegetables--lusaka, zambia, 2003-2004. | zambia experienced widespread cholera epidemics in 1991 (13,154 cases), 1992 (11,659), and 1999 (11,327). in response to the large outbreak in 1999, the zambian ministry of health (zmoh) urged use of in-home chlorination with the locally produced solution, clorin, and the practice increased substantially clorin had been introduced in zambia in 1998 as part of the safe water system (sws), a point-of-use water disinfection and safe-water storage strategy launched by the society for family health, ... | 2004 | 15343144 |
| identification and antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial enteropathogens from children aged 0-59 months at the university teaching hospital, lusaka, zambia: a prospective cross sectional study. | bacterial diarrhoeal disease is among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in children 0-59 months at the university teaching hospital in lusaka, zambia. however, most cases are treated empirically without the knowledge of aetiological agents or antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. the aim of this study was, therefore, to identify bacterial causes of diarrhoea and determine their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in stool specimens obtained from the children at the hospital. | 2017 | 28152988 |