RESUMEN
The authors use an investigation carried out at Pikine Social Paediatric Institute on children consulting for diarrhoea to underline the epidemiological factors of this affliction in Dakar suburbs: the average age of the children is 14 months; almost half the children came from families with low or irregular incomes; coprologic examination showed parasitic germs in 26.7% of the cases, rotavirus in 24.4%, and bacteria in 17.6%.
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Diarrea Infantil/epidemiología , Infecciones Bacterianas/epidemiología , Guarderías Infantiles , Preescolar , Diarrea Infantil/microbiología , Diarrea Infantil/parasitología , Humanos , Incidencia , Lactante , Parasitosis Intestinales/epidemiología , Infecciones por Rotavirus/epidemiología , Senegal/epidemiología , Factores SocioeconómicosRESUMEN
The authors depict the main clinical tables relating to endocrine and cytogenetic study on 7 confirmed cases and stress the difficulties they faced taking care of these children. These were dominated by: the unavailability of sufficient suitable medicine; and the absence of complementary examinations indispensable for biologically checking the children treated and for their therapeutic readjustment.