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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829168403321

Titolo

Acute diarrhoea in childhood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 1976

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier, , 1976

ISBN

1-280-78353-2

9786613693921

0-470-72024-7

0-470-71792-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation Symposium (new series) ; ; 42

Disciplina

618.92/3427

Soggetti

Diarrhea in children

Diarrhea - Microbiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Symposium on Diarrhoea in Childhood, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 21st-23rd October 1975"--Participants page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Acute Diarrhoea in Childhood; Contents; Preface; The problem of bacterial diarrhoea; Discussion; Studies on the pathogenesis of enteric infections caused by invasive bacteria; Discussion; Neonatal Escherichia coli infections in domestic mammals: transmissibility of pathogenic characteristics; Discussion; The nature and action of cholera toxin; Discussion; The activation of adenylate cyclase by cholera toxin : possible interaction with the nucleotide regulatory site; Discussion; Regulation of active ion transport in the small intestine; Discussion

Intestinal immunization with soluble bacterial antigens : the example of cholera toxoid Discussion; Iron-binding proteins and other factors in milk responsible for resistance to Escherichia coli; Discussion; General Discussion; The advantages of breast milk; The agglutinating antibody response in the duodenum of infants with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli gastroenteritis; Discussion; Intestinal exfoliated cells in infant diarrhoea : changes in cell renewal and disaccharidase activities; Discussion; Viral gastroenteritis : recent progress, remaining problems; Discussion

The aetiology of diarrhoea in newborn infants Discussion; Implications



of recent virological researches; Pathogenic rotaviruses isolated from pigs and calves; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Recent advances in the aetiology of viral gastroenteritis; Discussion; Breast-feeding, weaning and the diarrhoeal syndrome in a Guatemalan Indian village; Discussion; Taking science where the diarrhoea is; Discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index