A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PARASITIC AND ROTAVIRUS A GASTROENTERITIS IN CHILDREN BELOW 5 YEARS AT EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH
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Keywords
Diarrhoea, Rotavirus A,, prasites, co-infection
Abstract
Diarrheal diseases continue to be a major concern for developing countries. An estimated 248 million episodes of diarrhea occurs every year in children under 5 years. A diversity wide enough, these diarrheal agents include non-infectious (e.g., toxins) and infectious agents (bacterial, protozoal, and viral). 323 stool samples were collected which were tested for the presence of parasites , Rotavirus antigen through ELISA and Rotavirus A was confirmed through RT-PCR. Among the 231 OPD patients, Rotavirus positive cases were found to be 95 (41.1 %), 31(13.42 %) were infected with parasites and other diarrhoeal cases were 105 (45.45 %).
Of the 92 IPD patients, children infected with Rotavirus A were 48 (52.2 %), 13 (14.13 %) were infected with parasites whereas other diarrhoeal cases were 31 (33.7 %) Co-infection of Rotavirus-A with parasites were found in six patients (4 Giardia , 2 Entamoeba histolytica)
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Chandrim Sengupta
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Dr KNS Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
Sarver Jahan
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences, Banthara, Kanpur Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh