Golam Rabbani, Telahun Teka, Badiuz Zaman, N. Majid et al.
Background & aims Because of the beneficial intestinal effects of dietary fibers, we have evaluated the therapeutic effects of green banana or pectin in children with persistent diarrhea. Methods In a double-blind trial, 62 boys, age 5-12 months, were randomly given a rice-based diet containing eith...
Golam Rabbani, Telahun Teka, Shyamal K. Saha, Badiuz Zaman et al.
To evaluate the effects of green banana and pectin (nondigestible, dietary sources of colonic shortchain fatty acids [SCFA]) on intestinal permeability, 57 boys (5-12 months) with persistent diarrhea (> or = 14 days) were given a week's treatment with a rice-based diet containing either cooked green...
Telahun Teka, ASG Faruque, GJ Fuchs
Few case‐control studies have examined possible risk factors for diarrhoeal deaths in under‐age‐five children in the developing countries. We analysed data from the surveillance system of our diarrhoea treatment centre/hospital for the period 1990‐94 on 928 children less than 5 years of age. In univ...
Telahun Teka, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Md Iqbal Hossain, George J. Fuchs
We studied the clinical and epidemiological features associated with Aeromonas diarrhoea by a hospital survey of 7,398 children under 5 years of age presenting with diarrhoea. The data were actually based upon two cohorts from this survey, the majority of the data being identified from 405 (5.5%) in...
Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Telahun Teka, G Fuchs
We reviewed the clinical and epidemiological features of 390 children under 5 years of age infected with either Shigella dysenteriae type I or Shigella flexneri attending a diarrhoea treatment centre from 1993 to 1995 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Older age (24 months or more), underweight and wasting but n...
Telahun Teka
AIDS-related knowledge and behaviours among students at the Gondar College of Medical Sciences, Gondar, Ethiopia were evaluated based on identical surveys conducted in 1990 and 1992. One hundred three second year students provided information in 1992. Analysis indicated that 49% were engaged in sexu...
Bhattacharya Mk, Telahun Teka, George J. Fuchs