Magnitude and impact of diarrhoeal disease
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1988-12Autor
Mata Jiménez, Leonardo
Guerrant, Richard L.
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Diarrhoea seems to be a minor problem in humans and other mammals
living in small, isolated tribes or groups. Under such conditions there is
limited, if any, introduction of pathogenic agents and, if agents are introduced,
there may not be sufficient critical mass to guarantee transmission
and the production of an endemic state of a given agent of diarrhoea.
Furthermore, small groups of individuals tend to handle water and faeces
more carefully, with fewer opportunities for spread of the aetiological
agents of diarrhoea. When humans cluster in crowded cities and villages
without having attained the desirable level of environmental sanitation and
personal hygiene, microbial pathogens rapidly become endemic, and diarrhoea
is then a leading cause of morbidity, malnutrition and mortality.
Artículo científico -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud. 1988