Taking Science Where the Diarrhoea Is

• Published in: Ciba Foundation Symposium 42 ‐ Acute Diarrhoea in Childhood pp. 339 - 366
• Main Authors: Rohde, Jon Eliot, Northrup, Robert S
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.1976
• Subjects: clinical research; diarrhoea; fluid‐elctrolyte malnutrition; immunology; Latin America

With attack rates exceeding two episodes per year in the young, diarrhoea with attendant dehydration is by far the major single killer in the developing world. An invariable accompaniment of the more insidious and chronic protein‐energy malnutrition (PEM), diarrhoea is itself an acute form of malnut...