Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Typhoid fever in children

Typhoid fever is an acute infectious disease, a typical anthroponosis with an enteric mechanism of infection, caused by typhoid bacilli and characterized by predominant damage to the lymphatic apparatus of the small intestine, high fever, severe intoxication and bacteremia, roseola rash, hepatosplenomegaly, often with a wave-like course and prolonged bacterial excretion.

Salmonellosis in children

Salmonellosis in children is an acute infectious disease of humans and animals caused by numerous salmonella serovars and occurring in children most often in gastrointestinal (A02), less often typhoid-like and septic forms (A01).

Enterohemorrhagic escherichiosis in children: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli produce an exotoxin, verocytotoxin, which has a pathological effect not only on the intestinal wall, but also on other organs and tissues (kidneys, liver, hematopoietic system, etc.).

Enterotoxigenic escherichiosis in children

Enterotoxin-associated escherichiosis occurs in children and adults of any age. It is widespread throughout the world, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and occurs among both local residents and visitors ("traveler's diarrhea"). It occurs in the form of sporadic cases or epidemic outbreaks.

Enteroinvasive escherichiosis in children: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Enteroinvasive escherichiosis is observed mainly in children over 3 years of age and in adults. The incubation period of enteroinvasive escherichiosis is most often 1-3 days. The disease usually begins acutely, with a rise in body temperature, headache, nausea, often vomiting, moderate abdominal pain.

Enteropathogenic escherichiosis in children

Enteropathogenic escherichiosis is widespread among young children, especially among children aged 3-12 months with an unfavorable premorbid background, weakened by various intercurrent diseases, and those on artificial feeding. Newborns also get sick, especially premature babies and children from risk groups.

Escherichiosis in children: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Escherichiosis is an acute infectious disease, mainly in young children, caused by various serovars of pathogenic Escherichia coli with the localization of the pathological process in the gastrointestinal tract, the development of infectious-toxic and diarrheal syndromes, less often with damage to other organs or generalization of the process up to sepsis.

What causes dysentery (shigellosis)?

Shigella are morphologically indistinguishable from each other - they are gram-negative, non-motile rods, do not have capsules or flagella, do not form spores, easily reproduce on ordinary nutrient media, and are facultative anaerobes.

Shigellosis (dysentery) in children

Shigellosis (dysentery) is an acute infectious disease of humans with an enteric mechanism of infection caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella. Clinically, the disease manifests itself as a colitis syndrome and symptoms of general intoxication, often with the development of primary neurotoxicosis.

Intestinal infections in children

Acute intestinal infections (AII) occupy one of the leading places in infectious pathology of childhood. According to WHO, more than 1 billion people in the world suffer from acute gastrointestinal infectious diseases (diarrhea) every year, of which 65-70% are children under 5 years of age.