Importance Diarrheal disease is commonly encountered in clinical practice. Persistent
diarrhea (≥ 14 days) can be caused by pathogens that differ from those commonly seen in …

Background Current WHO guidelines on the management and treatment of diarrhea in
children strongly recommend continued feeding alongside the administration of oral …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Prolonged episodes of acute diarrhea (ProD; duration 7–13 days)
or persistent diarrhea (PD; duration≥ 14 days) are important causes of undernutrition, yet …

Background Severe acute malnutrition affects 13 million children worldwide and causes 1–2
million deaths every year. Our aim was to assess the clinical and nutritional efficacy of a …

Sub-Saharan Africa as a region accounts for the bulk of the global under-five mortality rate,
to which diarrhea is major contributor. Millions of children die from diarrheal diseases each …

Background Diarrheal disease is heterogeneous, including watery diarrhea (WD) and
dysentery, some cases of which become persistent diarrhea (PD). Changes in risk over time …

Objective and Background We sought to identify predictors of extended duration of diarrhea
in young children, which contributes substantially to the nearly 1 1/2 million annual diarrheal …

Infectious diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality
worldwide. It results from infection of the intestinal tract by a wide range of enteric pathogens …

ABSTRACT Background: Persistent diarrhoea (PD), defined as diarrhoeal symptoms for
longer than 2 weeks, still forms a substantial disease burden in children under 5 years of …

Background: Acute diarrhea is defined as experience of three or more watery stools, with or
without blood, in 24 hours period. It is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children …