Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Jonathan Ross Latham, Kaisar Ali Talukder, Mustafizur Rahman, Yasmin Ara Begum, Firdausi Qadri, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Tahmeed Ahmed
BACKGROUND: This study compared the diversity of common diarrhoeal pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility in four hospitals in Bangladesh. METHODOLOGY: A total of 13,959 diarrhoea patients, comprising rural Mirzapur (2,820), rural Matlab (2,865), urban Dhaka (5,287) and urban Mirpur (2,987) were included under the diarrhoeal disease surveillance system of icddr,b during 2010-2011; stool specimens were tested for Shigella spp., Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and rotavirus...
December 2013: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries