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Incidence of diarrhea in children living in urban slums in Salvador, Brazil
Melo,Maria Clotildes N. de; Taddei,José A.A.C.; Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.; Vieira,Camilo; Carneiro,Nadya B.; Melo,Rita Franca; Silva,Luciana R.Diarrhea remains a major health issue in developing countries, with high morbidity and mortality rates. Determining the incidence of acute diarrhea in children and its associated factors is crucial to the planning of preventive approaches. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of diarrhea and to assess some relevant associated factors to it in children younger than 40 months living in two s...
Bacterial contamination in milk kitchens in pediatric hospitals in Salvador, Br...
Cairo,Romilda Castro; Silva,Luciana Rodrigues; Andrade,Carol Ferreira de; Barberino,Maria Goreth de Andrade; Bandeira,Antônio CarlosMilk may represent an important source of infectious agents to hospitalized pediatric patients. To describe the bacterial microflora isolated from the hands, stools, pharynx of all workers at milk kitchens in pediatric hospitals in the city of Salvador, Brazil, as well as in the formulas prepared by them, we carried out this cross-sectional study with all 91 workers from the 20 milk kitchens of all the public a...
Incidence of diarrhea: poor parental recall ability
Melo,Maria Clotildes N. de; Taddei,José Augusto de A.C.; Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.; May,Daniel Simões; Carneiro,Nadya B.; Silva,Luciana R.Several methodological issues may have an impact on the incidence rates of childhood acute diarrhea reported by community-based studies. This study was performed to assess the impact of parental recall ability and definition of diarrhea on the estimate of incidence of acute diarrhea. Eighty-four children younger than 40 months were randomly selected and visited every other day for four weeks and the occurrence ...
Antibiotics for the empirical treatment of acute infectious diarrhea in children
Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.; Silva,Luciana R.; Silva,NanciWhile the routine use of antibiotics for infectious diarrhea in children must be avoided, because it brings little benefit in most cases and is associated with the risk of increasing antimicrobial resistance, selected cases may require antimicrobial therapy, and the choice of the antimicrobial agent often has to be made empirically. Physicians prescribing antimicrobials in such a setting have not only to be awa...
Epidemiological and microbiological aspects of acute bacterial diarrhea in chil...
Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.; Santana,José S.; Barretto,Junaura R.; Andrade,Maria Goreth M.; Silva,Luciana R.In the few cases of acute childhood diarrhea that require antimicrobial therapy, the correct choice of the drug depends on detailed previous knowledge of local strains. In order to establish such parameters in our city, we reviewed the results of all 260 positive stool cultures of children between 0 and 15 years of age during two years at a pediatric tertiary care facility in Salvador, Brazil. Bacterial strains...
Clinical and epidemiological aspects of children hospitalized with severe rotav...
Carneiro,Nadya B.; Diniz-Santos,Daniel R.; Fagundes,Sabrina Q.; Neves,Lívio L.; Reges,Rodrigo M. B.; Lima,Eduardo K. P.; Quadros,Vitor H. de OlivaLittle is known about the epidemiology of severe rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis in Brazil. Given the morbidity associated with this condition and the importance of having detailed knowledge about the impact of rotavirus infection on the epidemiology of acute diarrhea in children, especially those with the most severe diarrheal conditions, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all pediatric pa...