Sentences with phrase «diarrheal disease»

«Recent studies in Africa and South Asia by people using sophisticated techniques show this organism is a very common, underappreciated cause of diarrheal disease in underresourced countries.»

For the study, Korpe worked with collaborators from the University of Virginia and the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh.

It found that while cholera was the main source of illness, rotavirus remained a «significant cause» of diarrheal disease in children under five in Haiti.

In 1990, most years of healthy life were lost reportedly to undernutrition, such as diarrheal diseases in malnourished children, but now the greatest disease burden may be attributed to high blood pressure, a disease of overnutrition.

So he and Tahmeed Ahmed from the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh teamed up with Jeffrey Gordon, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, to collect monthly fecal samples from healthy and malnourished Bangladeshi children under 2.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world's poorest countries with crucial information on a proven intervention in the fight against diarrheal disease.

If only the means of action could be decoded, and the healthy components isolated, identified, and produced in quantity, German thought, then they could be repurposed to treat everything from diarrheal diseases to cancer to hiv.

The company makes 2» - fucosyllactose from yeast and bacteria and is working toward marketing a nutritional supplement for children in the developing world, where diarrheal diseases kill more than a million of them a year.

They note that improved WASH services have the additional benefit of preventing transmission of other water - borne diarrheal diseases, such as rotavirus and Escherichia coli, that are a leading killer of children under five in Haiti.

«In the most recent global burden - of - disease study, diarrheal disease accounts for the loss of more disability - adjusted life years than any other infectious disease, and cryptosporidiosis is the second leading cause of diarrheal illness.»

So I joined a wonderful group at Johns Hopkins to work on diarrheal diseases — in part because I, like anybody who traveled in the outbacks of Asia, was plagued with diarrhea there for months — and it was a breakthrough that occurred at the University of Texas.

Gookin is nationally recognized for her expertise in gastroenterology with a special emphasis on infectious causes of feline diarrheal disease...

Each day 9,000 children around the world die from diseases such as acute respiratory illness and diarrheal diseases which can be prevented by washing with soap.

Milk powder mixed with dirty water is the reason for the deadly diarrheal disease of infants shown.

Studies have shown that infants who are breastfed are less likely to develop diarrheal diseases, ear infections and asthma, and that breastfeeding can protect the mother against breast, cervical and endometrial cancer.

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

Properly fermented foods can promote a healthy gastrointestinal microbiome by delivering probiotics and prevent diarrheal diseases, the most common disease on the planet among humans and the second - largest killer of children, he said.

In 1855, this terrible diarrheal disease, transmitted by the waterborne bacterium Vibrio cholerae, swept through Italy, part of a worldwide pandemic.

The fear is that a lack of sanitation will see the fatal diarrheal disease spreading.

In contrast, infection with the closely related bacterium Salmonella enterica Thyphimurium is usually limited to the gut and causes less serious diarrheal disease.

For example, a separate study by scientists at the CDC and Haiti's National Public Health Laboratory analyzed patients treated for diarrheal disease at four hospitals in Haiti between April 2012 and March 2013.

His work suggests a link between diarrheal diseases, malnutrition, stunted growth, and lower IQs.

For the near term, groups known as accelerated development and introduction plans (ADIPs) have studied the possibility of more rapidly introducing new vaccines for rotavirus, a common diarrheal disease, and pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.

Coastal flooding could add deaths In the world's poor and developing regions, malaria and diarrheal diseases related to water shortages and water contamination will claim in excess of 100,000 lives by 2030, according to the WHO analysis.

But the causes of sickness and death will shift over that period as child deaths from malnutrition and diarrheal disease decline across much of the world, while mortality rises from things like mosquito - borne malaria, heat exposure and other conditions, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The paper, published in The Lancet Global Health, also finds that chronic diseases, such as ischemic heart disease and diabetes, cause a greater burden to health in the region overall than communicable diseases like diarrheal diseases and tuberculosis.

As it stands, more than 1.5 million children die of diarrheal disease annually around the world, mostly due to bad drinking water.

In animals, salmonellosis is usually a self - limiting diarrheal disease not requiring antimicrobial therapy.

UNICEF then used BRAC's model for its worldwide diarrheal disease treatment program, reducing deaths from diarrhea among children from 4.6 million in 1980 to 1.6 million in 2006.

This organism has two nuclei and eight flagella, and can cause a persistent diarrheal disease called giardiasis (colloquially known as «beaver fever»).

The impact of other ailments, such as diarrheal diseases, neonatal preterm birth complications, and lower respiratory infections, has significantly declined.

The WHO - ORS solution is a scientifically sound method of body fluid loss replacement, which was developed for use in developing countries where cholera or other diarrheal diseases are common.

Cholera and other acute diarrheal diseases are the biggest threat post-disaster, putting the lives of thousands of children and the elderly in danger.

According to John Clemens, the IVI's director - general, its immunology programs have focused on research and supply of vaccines against diarrheal diseases, bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, dengue fever, and Japanese encephalitis.

Most certainly: First the stats: Diarrheal diseases kill 1.5 million children every year, nearly 20 % of all children's deaths in the world.

It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of annual deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts: malaria due to an increase in the geographic range of disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal diseases, and deaths from flooding, McMichael says.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as high as 50 percent of international travelers suffer some form of traveler's diarrhea and diarrheal diseases account for 1 in 9 child deaths worldwide, making diarrhea the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five.

A double - blind, randomized, clinical trial of the effect of vitamin A and zinc supplementation on diarrheal disease and respiratory tract infections in children in Mexico City, Mexico.

A nationally recognized expert in gastroenterology, Gookin especially focuses on researching infectious causes of feline diarrheal disease.

Scientists from the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, a major research institution in Bangladesh, investigated what caused the outbreak.