Changing patient population in Dhaka Hospital and Matlab Hospital of icddr,b

Trop Med Int Health. 2014 Feb;19(2):240-3. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12231. Epub 2013 Nov 20.

Abstract

The Diarrhoeal Disease Surveillance System of icddr,b noted increasing number of patients ≥60 years at urban Dhaka and rural Matlab from 2001 to 2012. Shigella and Vibrio cholerae were more frequently isolated from elderly people than children under 5 years and adults aged 5-59 in both areas. The resistance observed to various drugs of Shigella in Dhaka and Matlab was trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (72-63%), ampicillin (43-55%), nalidixic acid (58-61%), mecillinam (12-9%), azithromycin (13-0%), ciprofloxacin (11-13%) and ceftriaxone (11-0%). Vibrio cholerae isolated in Dhaka and Matlab was resistant to trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (98-94%), furazolidone (100%), erythromycin (71-53%), tetracycline (46-44%), ciprofloxacin (3-10%) and azithromycin (3-0%).

Keywords: Bangladesh; diarrhoea; elderly; rural; urban.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents* / therapeutic use
  • Bangladesh / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cholera / drug therapy
  • Cholera / microbiology*
  • Diarrhea / drug therapy
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Diarrhea / microbiology*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / drug therapy
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / microbiology*
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Middle Aged
  • Shigella*
  • Vibrio*
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents