A discussion of the commonly seen symptoms of the disorder and of the impact it can have on a child and his family is presented. Diagnostic tests which physicians can use to make a diagnosis of gastroenteritis are discussed.Khanna RLakhanpaul MBurman-Roy SBMJ...
In our study, we sought to determine whether physicians treating patients with a common paediatric condition, gastroenteritis (GE),3 in two different care settings, varied in their use of diagnostic tests. We chose this condition because i) it is a common condition, ii) no standing protocol ...
Serologic tests are rarely used. Neutralizing antibodies can be detected by plaque reduction or cytopathic effect inhibition. Caliciviruses: Norovirus, Sapovirus In 1972, Kapikian et al., investigating a gastroenteritis outbreak in Norwalk, Ohio, visualized 27 nm particles in a stool filtrate and...
As cheap and fast non-culture diagnostic tests are disseminated, their use in China could revolutionize our approach to foodborne disease surveillance. The potential for this should be further studied, particularly since there is a summertime (bacterial pathogen) seasonality. The main limitation in ...
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Diagnostic tests include HIDA scan or ultrasound. 23 What is the differential diagnosis of acute cholecystitis? • Liver: alcoholic hepatitis, liver metastasis, Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, congestive hepatopathy • Pancreas: pancreatitis, pseudocyst • GI tract: peptic ulcer disease with or without...
While various factors may contribute to the increased number of positive adenovirus tests, it is essential to consider changes in diagnostic testing approaches and the impact of improved detection methods that may have been implemented over the last several years. ...
Point prevalence of persistent gastrointestinal symptoms after acute COVID-19, and the timepoint and method for which these symptoms were reported. Post-COVID symptoms reported would be persistent in nature, i.e., participants with a short-lived, unrelated episode of acute gastroenteritis at follow...
Although we did not find that AAV2 sequences in cases differed from those in AAV2 occurring as co-infections in HAdV-F41-positive stool collected from control children during the contemporary HAdV-F41 gastroenteritis outbreak (Fig. 3b), rAAV capsid expressing a consensus capsid sequence from ...
The diseases related to viral gastroenteritis are gradually increasing, particularly in the developed countries. The purpose of our study was to determine the frequency and to investigate the clinical manifestations of acute rotavirus and adenovirus gatroenteritis and to assess the diagnostic value of ...