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Meanings of dysentery in English
Inflammation of the intestine causing diarrhea with blood.
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Examples for "shigellosis"
Examples for "shigellosis"
1
Based on epidemiologic and environmental findings, it was concluded that the transmission of shigellosis was waterborne.
2
Background: Despite a significant global burden of disease, there is still no vaccine against shigellosis widely available.
3
In vivo models of shigellosis have been hampered since humans are the only natural hosts of Shigella.
4
Background: Approximately 164,000 deaths yearly are due to shigellosis, primarily in developing countries.
5
In other countries where the bacteria is more prevalent, shigellosis is also commonly contracted through food and water.
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Clostridium difficile is a common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients.
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Clostridium difficile is a major cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients.
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Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea.
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Objective: To investigate the etiology and source of an infectious diarrhea outbreak and control the epidemic.
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Whether probiotics other than L. rhamnosus might be effective against infectious diarrhea in children remains to be seen, LaMont said.
Usage of dysentery in English
1
The oil is more effective in bleeding and dysentery and bleeding piles.
2
He died in Sydney in June, 1803, from dysentery contracted at Timor.
3
Every semester, a number of students wound up in hospital with dysentery.
4
Eighteen were attacked, and ten died; five others dying of the dysentery.
5
In their stead came daily crowds of dysentery, jaundice and septic cases.
6
Her disease was the malignant dysentery, which is peculiar to the climate.
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Fever and dysentery together are in nine cases out of ten fatal.
8
The principal diseases are continued, remittent, and intermittent fevers, diarrhoea, and dysentery.
9
Frost-bite maimed them at first; then scurvy, dysentery, fever, began to kill.
10
The infusion can be injected for dysentery, diarrhea, gonorrhea, gleet and leucorrhea.
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He was soon afterwards seized with dysentery, which rapidly reduced his strength.
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When the Mexicans were joined by their ally, dysentery, it was godawful.
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I consider, however, that dysentery is a more formidable enemy than fever.
14
Boys died of malaria, of dysentery, of snake bites, of scorpion stings.
15
A sure remedy for cholera, indigestion, sour crop, dysentery, and bowel trouble.
16
The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta.
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