Acute Gastroenteritis in Children of the World: What Needs to Be Done?

• Main Authors: Alfredo Guarino, Juliet Aguilar, James Berkley, Ilse Broekaert, Rodrigo Vazquez-Frias, Lori Holtz, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Toufik Meskini, Sean Moore, Juan F. Rivera Medina, Bhupinder Sandhu, Andrea Smarrazzo, Hania Szajewska, Suporn Treepongkaruna
• Other Authors: University of the Philippines Manila
• Format: Article
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/56248
• Institution: Mahidol University

The incidence of gastroenteritis has greatly reduced due to improved hygiene conditions in developing countries and the use of rotavirus vaccine. Still thousands of children, however, die from gastroenteritis, most of them in poor countries. Yet gastroenteritis management is simple, inexpensive, and...