Methods Fifty children with persistent diarrhea and 50 controls with acute diarrhea (matched
for age and sex) comprised the study subjects. Results Most of the children (82%) were …

Objective To identify risk factors associated with Persistent diarrhea (PD) and deaths due to
PD. Methods This prospective case control study included 60 children with PD (cases) and …

In 58 previously well‐nounshed patients who were fed cow's milk and who later developed
persistent diarrhoea (≥ 15 days), data obtained during the first 8 days of acute diarrhoea …

Acute diarrhoea is a major public health problem in Ethiopian children under five years of
age. Reports for other developing countries indicate that persistent diarrhoea is emerging as …

Diarrheal diseases continue to be an important pub-lic health problem in developing
countries."* Acute, short lived illnesses with dehydration can result in death unless prompt …

The duration of acute diarrhea forms a continuoum, most episodes terminating within 7 days
and progrcssivcly smaller proportion persisting beyond 14, 21 or 28 days. The delineation of …

Diarrheal diseases remain a leading public health problem, particularly in children in
developing countries. Young children (less than 5 years of age) are the most affected in …

Diarrhea is the second most common cause of death in children. There are about 6 billion
episodes of diarrhea every year in the world with 2 million deaths. Diarrhea is a condition …

Nearly a decade ago the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there were
approximately 700 million episodes of diarrhea annually among children under 5 years old …