| clinical evaluation and bacterial survey in infants and young children with diarrhoea in the santa cruz district, bolivia. | clinical and laboratory studies on a total of 211 of infants and young children admitted to the national santa cruz general hospital for various types of diarrhoea during 1991-1992 are described. a peak cluster was observed in children aged 1 year of which 80 per cent were acute diarrhoea and the remaining 20 per cent were prolonged or chronic diarrhoea. the major bacterial pathogen was enteropathogenic escherichia coli. other bacterial pathogens such as klebsiella, shigella, cholera, etc., were ... | 1994 | 7853444 |