A Study of Bacteriological Diarrhea in Children
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29070/25r4xd76Keywords:
bacteriological diarrhea, children, morbidity, mortality, developing countries, India, rural areas, socio-economic status, unprotected water supply, poor personal hygiene, illiteracy, malnutrition, incidence, rural population, low-socioeconomic group, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, mixed infection, Ciprofloxacin, Norfloxacin, Gentamycin, recovery rate, mortality rate, antibiotic sensitivity patternAbstract
Diarrheas are one among the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries like India. Children below the age group of 5 years in rural areas and of low socio-economic status are most commonly affected due to various reasons like unprotected water supply, poor personal hygiene, illiteracy and malnutrition. Male children were affected more than female children and the commonest age group involved was 0-5 years. Incidence was common in rural population and in low-socioeconomic group. Escherichia coli was the commonest isolate with an incidence rate of 54% followed by Klebsiella (17%), Pseudomonas, Salmonella(1% each) and mixed infection with Escherichia coli and Klebsiella(6%). Most of the isolates were sensitive to Ciprofloxacin, Norfloxacin and Gentamycin. On follow-up, recovery rate was 95% and mortality rate was observed to be 5%. The isolate and the antibiotic sensitivity pattern help the pediatrician in treating children with complaints of diarrhea.References
Beena Uppal, Naz Parween, Prabhav Aggarwal, Shyam Kishore Kumar (2015). A Comparative Study of Bacterial and Parasitic Intestinal Infections in India. J. Clin. Diagn. Res., 9(3): pp. DC01-DC04.
Daniel, R., Diniz-Santos, Jose, S., Snatana, Junaura, R., Barretto, Maria Goreth (2005). M. Andrada; Luciana R. Silva. Epidemiological and microbiological aspects of acute Bacterial Diarrhea in children from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Brazilian J. Infect. Dis.,Vol. 9, No. 1, Salvador, Feb. 2005.
Haricharan, K.R., Shrinivasa, B.M., Vatsala Kumari (2013). Clinical and Bacteriological Study of Acute Diarrhea in Children. J. Evol. Med. Dent. Sci., June 2013, http://www.jemds.com/latestarticles.php?at_id=1346.
Hossain, Md. Asif, Kohinoor Akter Raton and Rashed Noor (2013). Bacteriological study of Stool samples collected from children suffering from Diarrhea. J. Global Biosci., Vol. 2(5), pp. 160-165.
Mamatha Ballal, Suganthi, M., Devadas, Rituparna Chakraborthy, Vignesh Shetty (2014). Emerging trends in Etioloogy and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Enteric Pathogens in Rural Coastal India. Int. J. Clin. Med., Vol. 5, No. 7 (2014), Article ID: 44744, 8 pages.
Manoj Kumar, Manisha Ramakrishana, Koram, Lalith Kumar (2014). Study of Various Causative Factors of Diarrheal Diseases with Special Reference to Bacteriological Profile among 0 to 5 Years Age Group. Int. J. Scientific Study, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 47-52.
Mohammed Reza Ismaeili Dooki, Ramazan Rajabnia, Rahim Barari Sawadkohi. et al. (2014). Bacterial enteropathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility in children with acute diarrhea in Babol, Iran. Caspian J. Intern. Med.,1(5): pp. 30-34.
Das, S., R. Saha, S. Singhal (2007). Enteric Pathogens in North Indian Patients with Diarrhea. Indian J. Community Med., Vol. 32, Issue 1 page 27-31.
Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Ramakrishnan Jayalakshmy (2015). Diarrheal Diseases among Children in India: Current Scenerio and future perspectives. J. Nat. Sci. Biol. Med., 6(1) pp. 24-28.
Sunil Kumar, D., Chavan, K.H. Harshan (2015). Aerobic Bacteriological Study with their Antibiogram in Children Acute Diarrhea in North East Karnataka, India. Int .J. Curr. Microbiol. App.Sci., 4(11): pp. 700-706.
Vyas Kumar Rathaur, Monika Pathania, Apama Jayara, Neeraj Yadav (2014). Clinical Study of Acute Childhood Diarrhea Caused by Bacterial Enteropathogens. J. Clin. Diagn. Res., 8(5): pp. PC01-PC05.
Surya Kanta Samal, Hemant Kumar Khuntia, Prafulla Kumar Nanda, et al. (2008). Incidence of Enteropathogens among Hospitalized Diarrhea patients from Orissa, India. Jpn. J. Infect. Dis., 61: pp. 350-355.
This work is licensed under a 