eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | shigellosis |
| Symptom | C0011991|diarrhoea |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 21654922 | Their study showed that diarrhoea due to shigella is a disease that affects all ages, but that it is commonly seen in paediatric patients. |
| PubMedID- 22106748 | According to the recent report of the world health organization on the worldwide burden of shigellosis, 90 million cases of diarrhoea due to shigella occur annually mostly in developing countries, and an estimated 108,000 deaths per year are attributed to shigella infections (http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/diarrhoeal/en/index6.html # vaccine). |
| PubMedID- 24890572 | We conclude that rotavirus and etec-esta were the most important causes of diarrhoea with dehydration, that shigella caused bloody diarrhoea but less severe dehydration, that microbial loads of rotavirus, etec-esta and shigella were associated with severity of symptoms, and that antibiotic use was frequent and in poor agreement with microbiological findings. |
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