Prevention of bacterial diarrhea by pasteurization of drinking water in Kenya

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 413-416

  Lijima, Yoshio ^a   Karama, Mohamed ^b   Oundo, Joseph O ^b   Honda, Takeshi ^c  

^a KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Diarrhea prevention; Drinking water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PASTEURIZATION; RURAL POPULATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034962426     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb02639.x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Heat susceptibility of bacterial enteropathogens. Implications for the prevention of travelers' diarrhea
2. Pathogen-specific risk factors and protective factors for acute diarrheal disease in urban Brazilian infants
3. Pasteurization of naturally contaminated water with solar energy
4. An educational intervention for altering water-sanitation behaviors to reduce childhood diarrhea in urban Bangladesh. I. Application of the case-control method for development of an intervention
5. Solar disinfection of drinking water and diarrhoea in Maasai children: A controlled field trial
6. Diarrhea in developed and developing countries: Magnitude, special settings, and etiologies
7. Survival of hunger and stress: The role of rpoS in early stationary phase gene regulation in E. coli
8. Simultaneous outbreak due to Vibrio cholerae and Shigella dysenteriae in Kenya
9. Impact of chlorination of water in domestic storage tanks on childhood diarrhoea: A community trial in the rural areas of Saudi Arabia
10. Diarrhoeal disease: Knowledge, attitudes and practices in an aboriginal community
11. Epidemiological study on infectious diarrheal diseases in children in a coastal rural area of Kenya
12. Why treatment centres failed to prevent cholera deaths among Rwandan refugees in Goma, Zaire
13. The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease: A review of active surveillance data