Technical Literature Update Subject Index

The first part is arranged by descriptor terms, followed by a country index. The index is intended to serve as a reference for a collection of ILU and for research on diarrheal disease control. Descriptor terms include Acute Diarrhea, Diarrhea-Related Diseases, Dietary Management of Diarrhea, Drug Management of Diarrhea, Dysentery, Education, Evaluation, Feeding Practices, Flavored ORS, Growth Monitoring, and others. Each descriptor term is followed by a list of articles related to that topic. Articles on Acute Diarrhea cover topics such as the efficacy of oral rehydration solution in correcting serum potassium deficit in children with acute diarrhea in Bangladesh, the clinical epidemiology of acute diarrheal disease in Egyptian children, and the role of bicarbonate and base precursors in the treatment of acute gastroenteritis. The Diarrhea-Related Diseases section includes articles on persistent diarrhea, strongyloides-associated diarrhea in HIV-infected children in Kinshasa, Zaire, and prolonged depression of serum zinc concentrations in children following post-measles diarrhea. The Dietary Management of Diarrhea section covers topics such as the nutritional management of acute gastroenteritis, the efficacy of oral rehydration solution in correcting serum potassium deficit in children with acute diarrhea in Bangladesh, and the metabolic basis of starvation diarrhea. The Drug Management of Diarrhea section includes articles on antibiotic-associated diarrhea and colitis due to Clostridium difficile, bismuth subsalicylate in the treatment of chronic diarrhea of childhood, and the characterization of Vibrio cholerae isolated in Kenya in 1983. The Education section covers topics such as the development and field testing of a method for assessing the effectiveness of diarrhea case management by mothers, the evaluation of a programme of teaching mothers the management of acute diarrhea, and the innovation among Haitian healers: the adoption of oral rehydration therapy. The Evaluation section includes articles on evaluating community and ORT programmes, evaluating the management of diarrhea in health centres in Mozambique, and the evaluation of home-made salt-sugar oral rehydration solution in a rural Nigerian population. The Feeding Practices section covers topics such as childhood malnutrition, feeding practices of children with protein-energy malnutrition in Nigeria, and the association between malnutrition and diarrhea in rural Bangladesh. The Flavored ORS section includes articles on the comparative clinical trial of acceptability of flavored vs. non-flavored ORS (WHO formula). The Growth Monitoring section covers topics such as acute diarrhea and asymptomatic infection in Chilean preschoolers of low and high socio-economic strata, the association between malnutrition and diarrhea in rural Bangladesh, and childhood malnutrition. The index also includes a country index, which lists articles by country of origin. The index is intended to serve as a reference for researchers and practitioners working on diarrheal disease control.