| shigella and enteroinvasive escherichia coli infections in households of children with dysentery in bangkok. | shigellae and enteroinvasive escherichia coli (eiec) were identified in children with dysentery and their household contacts in bangkok. shigellae were isolated from 49% and eiec from 6% of 306 children with dysentery seen at the outpatient department of children's hospital on weekdays during january through june 1989 and october 1989 through october 1990. the same serotype infecting the index child was isolated from 21 (4%) of 522 household contacts of 151 index children with shigella infection ... | 1992 | 1727884 |
| childhood diarrhoea in a low-income urban community in bangkok: incidence, clinical features, and child caretaker's behaviours. | a one-year surveillance study of childhood diarrhoea in a low-income urban community in bangkok revealed an annual incidence of 2.2 episodes per child among infants, and that the overall annual incidence among children under five years of age was 0.9 per child. rotavirus, salmonella and campylobacter jejuni were common aetiologic agents. in children less than one year, diarrhoea was caused mostly by rotavirus and salmonella. in 1-2 year old children, the major causative agent was rotavirus while ... | 1991 | 1787280 |
| epidemiologic aspects of shigellosis and other causes of dysentery in thailand. | nearly 20% of children seen in the outpatient department of children's hospital in bangkok, thailand, for diarrheal disease had bloody diarrhea. shigella species and enteroinvasive escherichia coli--isolated from 13% and 2% of children with diarrhea, respectively--were the most frequent causes of bloody diarrhea. campylobacter species and nontyphoidal salmonella species were also isolated frequently but were much less often associated with bloody diarrhea. shigella species were rarely isolated f ... | 1991 | 2047642 |
| response to antimicrobial therapy for shigellosis in thailand. | shigella species have been one of the most common causes of acute diarrhea in bangkok, thailand. the incidence of shigellosis increased steadily from 1984 to 1988. the majority of shigella species isolated from specimens from patients with acute diarrhea in bangkok in 1988 were resistant to both ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (tmp-smz). shigella flexneri was the most commonly isolated organism and had the highest rate of resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tmp-smz, and tetra ... | 1991 | 2047660 |
| surveillance of antibiotic resistance in south east asia. | antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacteria, particularly salmonella and shigella, requires surveillance worldwide. this study describes results of surveys in hong kong, bangkok and kuala lumpur. all strains were isolated in hospitals which have large community catchment areas in addition to specialised hospital units. the prevalence of resistant strains was high in all areas. gram-negative bacteria such as enterobacter associated with hospital infections were resistant to penicillins and ce ... | 1989 | 2504618 |
| clinical and microbiologic features of shigella and enteroinvasive escherichia coli infections detected by dna hybridization. | to determine the clinical and microbiologic features of shigella and enteroinvasive escherichia coli (eiec) infections, we investigated 410 children with diarrhea and 410 control children without diarrhea who were seen at children's hospital, bangkok, thailand, from january to june 1985. shigella spp. were isolated from 96 (23%) and eiec were isolated from 17 (4%) of 410 children with diarrhea and from 12 (3%) and 6 (1%) of 410 control children, respectively. the isolation rates of both pathogen ... | 1988 | 3045152 |
| trimethoprim-resistant shigella and enterotoxigenic escherichia coli strains in children in thailand. | the percentage of shigella and enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (etec) strains resistant to trimethoprim (tmp)-sulfamethoxazole isolated from children with diarrhea at the outpatient department of the children's hospital in bangkok increased from 3 and 0%, respectively, in 1982 to 29% and 25% in 1986. one hundred thirty-nine shigella and 22 etec strains resistant to greater than 1024 micrograms/ml of trimethoprim (tmpr) isolated from children with diarrhea in bangkok in 1984 and 1985 were analyz ... | 1987 | 3313233 |
| erythromycin-resistant campylobacter infections in thailand. | erythromycin therapy was compared with no treatment in a prospective trial of acute diarrheal disease among 100 infants in an orphanage in bangkok. within 24 h of the onset of diarrhea, 50 children received erythromycin ethylsuccinate (40 mg/kg per day) in four divided doses for 5 days. campylobacter jejuni isolated from 31, campylobacter coli isolated from 21, and shigella spp. isolated from 21 of 100 children were the most commonly recognized pathogens; use of a sensitive, nonselective method ... | 1987 | 3579261 |
| viruses and bacteria in pediatric diarrhea in thailand: a study of multiple antibiotic-resistant enteric pathogens. | children with diarrhea admitted to a rehydration ward of a children's hospital in bangkok were investigated to determine the prevalence of enteric pathogens, the extent of children's previous antibiotic therapy, and the frequency of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance among infecting bacteria. rotavirus (36%), enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (18%), shigella (9%), salmonella (6%), campylobacter jejuni/coli (4%), and vibrio cholerae (2%) infections were among 105 children with diarrhea. antibi ... | 1981 | 6275727 |
| a longitudinal study of the prevalence of bacterial enteric pathogens among adults with diarrhea in bangkok, thailand. | six hundred sixty adults with diarrhea treated at bamrasnaradura hospital, bangkok, thailand were investigated to determine the prevalence, seasonality, and severity of diarrhea associated with bacterial enteric pathogens in 1980 and 1981. shigella were isolated from 27% and vibrio parahaemolyticus from 19% of the patients studied. enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (5%), salmonella (3%), non-01 vibrio cholerae (3%), campylobacter jejuni (1%), and group f vibrio (less than 1%) were isolated from a ... | 1983 | 6370564 |
| maternal carrier rates of potentially pathogenic organisms in bangkok, thailand. | one hundred and four healthy women delivering infants at the royal thai army hospital, bangkok, were sampled by rectal swab for the laboratory isolation and identification of enteric bacteria of medical importance. seventeen percent of these women had significant isolates as salmonella, shigella and vibrio species. serotypically enteropathogenic escherichia coli were also identified in 31% of the mothers. | 1980 | 6996110 |
| demographic data on salmonella enteritidis infection in thailand, 1990-1995. | the data for the comprehensive analysis of salmonella enteritidis infection was based on the information recorded in the request form submitted for salmonella typing and the results of serotyping at the who national salmonella and shigella center, department of medical sciences, ministry of public health, thailand during 1990-1995. fifty-one cases of s. enteritidis (se) infection were confirmed in 1990. the morbidity being markedly increased each year from 1991 to 1995, with 105, 307, 471, 659 a ... | 1997 | 9656401 |
| protozoan enteric infection in aids related diarrhea in thailand. | the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of enteric protozoa and other pathogens in aids patients with diarrhea in bangkok, thailand. of 288 consecutive patients screened in the 10 month period between november 1999-august 2000 inclusive, 55 (19.2%) had cryptosporidium spp, 13 (4.5%) had isospora oocyst, 11 (3.8%) had giardia lamblia, 3 (0.9%) had entamoeba histolytica, and 1 (0.3%) had iodamoeba butschlii infection. the prevalence of microsporidia was 11% in this study. of 251 pati ... | 2001 | 12041580 |
| bacterial enteric pathogens in children with acute dysentery in thailand: increasing importance of quinolone-resistant campylobacter. | current data on pathogen prevalence and drug resistance patterns are important for treatment and vaccine-development strategies. an etiologic study of acute bacterial dysentery was conducted in children up to 12 years of age in 2 major hospitals in and around bangkok. stool samples or rectal swabs and clinical data were collected. standard microbiological methods were used to detect salmonella, shigella, campylobacter, vibrio, aeromonas and plesiomonas. pathogenic e. coli (etec, eiec, stec) was ... | 2002 | 12757222 |
| childhood shigellosis at king chulalongkorn memorial hospital, bangkok, thailand: a 5-year review (1996-2000). | the objective of this study was to evaluate the demographic data and clinical presentation of childhood shigellosis, and to study the microbiological data and antimicrobial susceptibilities of shigella spp. nine thousand nine hundred fourteen stool culture specimens from children aged 0-15 years who were treated at king chulalongkorn memorial hospital, bangkok, thailand, between 1996 and 2000 were retrospectively reviewed. data were collected from microbiological records and medical charts of ch ... | 2005 | 16124438 |
| a food borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to shigella and possibly salmonella in a school. | on august 5, 2005, a private hospital reported a large number of students with gastrointestinal illness from the same school in bangkok, thailand. the bureau of epidemiology along with the bangkok metropolitan administration investigated this outbreak, to determine risk factors, identify the source of infection and possible causative organism, and recommend prevention and control strategies. a case was defined as a person who was studying or working at school a and who developed abdominal pain, ... | 2008 | 18564716 |
| shigella from humans in thailand during 1993 to 2006: spatial-time trends in species and serotype distribution. | in thailand during 1993-2006, a total of 9063 shigella isolates from different medical centers were serotyped and trends over time and spatial clustering analyzed. of 3583 cases with age information, 1315 (37%) cases were from children between 0 and 4 years and 684 (19%) from children between 5 and 8 years. most infections were recorded during 1993-1994 (> 1500 per year), decreasing to < 200 in 2006. the relative species distribution also changed. during 1993-1994, shigella flexneri accounted fo ... | 2008 | 19086804 |