Gunzburg S, Gracey M, Burke V, Chang B
Department of Microbiology, University of Western Australia.
Epidemiol Infect. 1992 Feb;108(1):67-76. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800049517.
Infectious diarrhoea is common in young Australian Aborigines and is one of the main causes for their unsatisfactory health standards with consequent widespread failure to thrive and undernutrition. Most published reports relate to patients in hospital or to hospital admission statistics and give little indication of the extent or severity of diarrhoeal disease in children in Aboriginal communities. The present investigation involved more than 100 Aboriginal children up to 5 years of age living in remote communities in the tropical north of Western Australia who were studied prospectively over a 12-month period.
感染性腹泻在澳大利亚原住民儿童中很常见,是导致他们健康水平不佳的主要原因之一,进而导致普遍的生长发育不良和营养不良。大多数已发表的报告涉及住院患者或住院统计数据,几乎没有表明原住民社区儿童腹泻疾病的范围或严重程度。本研究涉及100多名居住在西澳大利亚州北部热带偏远社区的5岁以下原住民儿童,对他们进行了为期12个月的前瞻性研究。