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  1. Dane R
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea
  2. Milne JJC
    Med J Malaya, 1948;2:161-73.
    This is an interesting piece of Colonial history, compiled, one presumes, from official reports. It cannot satisfactorily be summarized. The author deals with his subject under various heads: hospitals, health legislation, dangerous infectious diseases, prevailing diseases, beriberi, fever and malaria, dysentery, and diarrhoea, influenza and enteric fever. In a table are given the numbers of cases of smallpox, cholera, plague, beriberi, dysentery, diarfhoea and fevers reported each year from 1890 to 1939. The only one of these to show steady reduction is beriberi, which began to decline from figures over 2,000 per annum before the 1914-18 war to 69-444 per annum from 1930 to 1939. Plague was never common and neither cholera nor smallpox was responsible for large numbers of cases. The author does not give any systematic accounts of the outstanding investigations made during the period, but rather quotes opinions expressed by Government servants, medical or lay, in their reports. Charles Wilcocks.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea
  3. Haug NL, Davis CE, Anandan J, Lim TW
    Med J Malaya, 1969 Sep;24(1):24-31.
    PMID: 4243839
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/diagnosis; Diarrhea/drug therapy; Diarrhea/etiology
  4. Ghosh HK
    Med J Malaya, 1970 Sep;25(1):34-7.
    PMID: 4249491
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea, Infantile/etiology*; Diarrhea, Infantile/pathology
  5. O'Holohan DR, Hugoe-Mathews J
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol, 1970 Dec;64(4):475-9.
    PMID: 5276552
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology
  6. Ampalam SD, Fang L
    Med J Malaya, 1971 Jun;25(4):282-4.
    PMID: 4261301
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/diagnosis; Diarrhea/microbiology*
  7. Sinniah D
    Med J Malaya, 1971 Dec;26(2):84-9.
    PMID: 4260865
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea, Infantile/prevention & control
  8. Takasaka M, Morota S, Kasono T, Abe M, Honjo S
    Jikken Dobutsu, 1973 Jul;22(3):227-36.
    PMID: 4204642
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/microbiology; Diarrhea/veterinary*
  9. Chen ST
    Trop Geogr Med, 1975 Mar;27(1):103-8.
    PMID: 806152
    Pneumonia and diarrhoeas are an important cause of toddler mortality and morbidity in developing countries. Of the 147 children admitted to the University Hospital at Kuala Lumpur in 1971 for pneumonia and diarrhoeas 50 (34%) were found to be suffering from protein-calorie malnutrition of varying degrees of severity. The malnourished children tended to come from poorer homes, and to have a larger number of siblings born in rapid succession when compared with normal weight children. Anemia was more common among the malnourished children. The interaction of infection and malnutrition and the social implications of these diseases are important. It is vital that hospitals in developing countries promote health in addition to their traditional curative role.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea, Infantile/complications; Diarrhea, Infantile/mortality*
  10. Jegathesan M, Singh RB, Kanaganayagy M, Soon LE
    PMID: 1096307
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/microbiology*; Diarrhea/epidemiology; Diarrhea, Infantile/microbiology*; Diarrhea, Infantile/epidemiology
  11. Jegathesan M, Paramasivam T
    Am J Trop Med Hyg, 1976 Jan;25(1):201-2.
    PMID: 943960
    Vibrio parahaemolyticus was isolated from 47 of 2,699 stools examined primarily for the exclusion of cholera. All strains grew well in alkaline peptone water containing 0.5% NaCl and in Monsur's medium. Serotyping showed them to be of various types. Adults were mainly affected. The importance of looking for V. parahaemolyticus in clinical specimens from cases of diarrhea is emphasized.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology*; Diarrhea/epidemiology
  12. Jegathesan M, Wah LT, Soon LE, Su Har D, Boo Liat L
    Trop Geogr Med, 1976 Jun;28(2):91-5.
    PMID: 788266
    Three species of commonly eaten shellfish found in Malaysian coastal waters were examined for the presence of common bacterial enteropathogens. Vibrio parahaemolyticus, non-agglutinating vibrios, and various serotypes of enteropathogenic E. coli were isolated from a large proportion of them. Salmonella were isolated in two instances. High colony counts with evidence of faecal contamination indicated the strong possibility of pulltion being the cause for the presence of these enteropathogens. Methods of cooking and eating these shellfish enhance their likelihood of acting as vehicles of diarrhoeal disease.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology
  13. O'Holohan DR
    J Trop Med Hyg, 1976 Sep;79(9):191-6.
    PMID: 794512
    In the context of this study the ethnic origin of the patients revealed no noteworthy difference in the clinical reaction to the parasite; neither did age or sex of the patients. Any minor differences whcih appeared in length of history before seeking treatment and frequency of repeat attacks were more a reflection of the cultural pattern of response to illness (i.e. resort to traditional medicines) and the distance between the patient's home and the doctor rather than any altered response on the part of the host to the parasite. However, the fact that about 35 per cent of all the episodes had a history of eight or more days (about 10 per cent more than 30 days) suggest that more "malaria consciousness" is called for in what is after all an endemic malaria area. The value (and necessity) of repeated examination of the blood to detect the parasite is confirmed but it is also encouraging to note that in 84% of cases a single careful examination of the blood revealed the parasite. Since in 49% of our malaria episodes the patient was afebrile when the parasite was discovered, it is obvious that in outpatient practice especially blood should be examined when the patient presents for treatment, irrespective of the presence or absence of pyrexia. As always, a prerequisite to the diagnosis of malaria is an awareness of its possible presence.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology
  14. Jegathesan M, Singh RB, Kanaganayagi M, Soon LE
    Med J Malaysia, 1976 Sep;31(1):46-56.
    PMID: 799233
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology*; Diarrhea, Infantile/etiology
  15. Gilman RH, Davis C, Fitzgerald F
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 1976;70(4):313-6.
    PMID: 1006759
    Children with heavy Trichuris infestation were compared with paediatric amoebic dysentery patients and normal children. Heavy Trichuris infestation was diagnosed by visualization of worms on anoscopy. Patients with heavy Trichuris infection had a longer duration of disease, more frequent hospitalization and a higher rate of rectal prolapse than did patients with amoebiasis. Five Trichuris children also had clubbing. Trichuris patients had lower mean haematrocrits (27%) and serum albumin (3-3 gm%) than did patients with amoebiasis (32% and 3-7 gm% respectively). Coinfection with Shigella and Salmonella was significantly increased in patients with heavy Trichuris infection compared to both amoebic and control group children. Trichuris patients were infected with Entamoeba histolytica more frequently (46%) than normal children. Heavy Trichuris infection is the probable cause of symptoms and signs seen in these patients.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea/etiology
  16. Lee EL
    Family Practitioner, 1978;3:13-20.
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea
  17. Iyngkaran N, Robinson MJ, Davis KA, Sumithran E, Kumar MV, Ong TH, et al.
    Aust Paediatr J, 1979 Dec;15(4):266-70.
    PMID: 546392
    Matched MeSH terms: Diarrhea, Infantile/etiology*
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