| rotavirus diarrhea among children less than 5 years of age in urban ghana. | we collected clinical and morphologic data from children with diarrhea attending 3 diverse hospitals/clinics in accra. stool samples were tested for rotavirus and cryptosporidium spp. in all, 58% of the children with diarrhea had rotavirus infections, 25% of which were of the g3 sero/genotype. the most common strains were g3p [6] (18.8%) and g2p [6] (12.5%). cryptosporidium spp. infections were uncommon (3/143, 2.0%). | 2011 | 21646938 |
| quantification of the health risk associated with wastewater reuse in accra, ghana: a contribution toward local guidelines. | quantitative microbial risk assessment (qmra) models with 10,000 monte carlo simulations were applied to ascertain the risks of rotavirus and ascaris infections for farmers using different irrigation water qualities and consumers of lettuce irrigated with the different water qualities after allowing post-harvest handling. a tolerable risk (tr) of infection of 7.7 x 10(-4) and 1 x 10(-2) per person per year were used for rotavirus and ascaris respectively. the risk of ascaris infection was within ... | 2008 | 18401111 |
| community-based cluster surveys on treatment preferences for diarrhoea, severe diarrhoea, and dysentery in children aged less than five years in two districts of ghana. | hospital-based surveillance for severe diarrhoea has been recommended to assess the burden of disease due to rotavirus. however, information on healthcare-seeking patterns of residents in the hospital catchment area is needed first to obtain the burden of disease in the community using the hospital data. a community-based cluster survey was conducted in two districts of ghana, each served by a single district hospital, to determine the prevalence of severe diarrhoea among and treatment preferenc ... | 2004 | 15473521 |
| seasonality of rotavirus infection in ghana. | human rotavirus (hrv) infection and its seasonal distribution was studied over a 12-month period in ghana. a total of 561 stool samples, 447 diarrhoea stools and 114 non-diarrhoea stools (controls), were obtained from children attending three polyclinics in accra. rotavirus was detected during 10 of the 12 months and showed a seasonal trend. it was high during the relatively cool dry months and low during the wet season. peaks of infection were in february (26.2%) and september (24.5%). hrv was ... | 1994 | 7825996 |