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rotavirus as an important cause of diarrhoea in a hospital for children in dammam, saudi arabia.a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries is acute diarrhoea and rotavirus, a reovirus-like agent, is found to be a leading causative agent. we report here the incidence of rotavirus infection among infants and young children with gastro-enteritis treated at the children's hospital in dammam, kingdom of saudi arabia. one hundred and fifty children, aged between 1 and 60 months, suffering from diarrhoeal illness, were selected as the study cohort; another 150 ...19872445264
the microbiology of acute diarrhoeal disease in the eastern province of saudi arabia.a prospective study of acute diarrhoeal diseases in the eastern province of saudi arabia was carried out over a 19-month period to determine aetiology, risk factors and other epidemiological characteristics. of the 853 subjects studied, 344 were cases and 509 controls. more cases were seen in children than in adults. enteric pathogens were detected in 49% of the cases, but none in the controls. of the pathogens, 68% were bacterial with salmonella (34%) and shigella species (14.7%) being the most ...19938306900
emergence of nalidixic acid resistance in shigella sonnei isolated from patients having acute diarrheal disease: report from eastern province of saudi arabia.during the 5 years of the study period (october 1999-october 2003), 110 strains of shigella were isolated from fecal samples of patients having acute diarrheal diseases. shigella sonnei phase 1 was the most prevalent (88/110, 80.0%) serotype. resistance to nalidixic acid was not encountered from 1999-2002. nalidixic acid resistance was observed in 6/13 (46.1%) of the s. sonnei phase 1 strains isolated from april-august 2003. minimum inhibitory concentration to nalidixic acid among these strains ...200415218222
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