Bloody diarrhea among children under 10 years in Tikrit Teaching Hospital

S. Aswed AL-Obaidi, Hussein

	Bloody diarrhea among children under 10 years in Tikrit Teaching Hospital
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-9
Author
Hussein S. Aswed AL-Obaidi
Abstract
In the few cases of 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 60 stool of children between 0 and 10 years of age during at a pediatric outpatients clinic in TTH. Parsites were identify by direct smear and bacterial strains had been presumptively identified by culturing in selective media and by biochemical testing. Data about patients' sex, age, resedency and sign and syptoms of the cases were also studied. Males corresponded to 48.7% of our sample, and most of our patients. The results shows that 56.7% of cases were caused by bacterial infection, 33.7% parasitic infection and 9.6% due to others. E.coli was the predominant among bacterial causes(48.3%) while, E.hisolytica was predominant among parasitic causes (33.7%). These data are useful for practitioners and they reinforce the need for continuous microbiological surveillance

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