Applied Medical Research. 2021;
8(1):(92-176)
Study of Infectious Diarrheas, in Transylvania – Romania
Liana Monica Deac
Abstract
“Diarrhea” is an alteration in a normal bowel movement characterized by an increase in
the water content, volume, or frequency of stools. Acute diarrhea of infec¬tious etiology,
often referred to as gastroenteri¬tis and is typically associated with clinical signs and
symptoms including: nausea, vomiting, abdomi¬nal pain and cramps, bloating, flatulence,
fever, passage of bloody stools, tenesmus, and fecal ur¬gency. Infectious diarrheal diseases
are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is the diarrhea we
have also found out during a large 3 yeas study 2017-2020 in Transylvania – Romania. 3577
number of cases were transmitted during this time by the 12 territory sanitary polices,
to the Epidemiology Department from the Public Health Center Cluj. These were mostly
diagnosed by the territorial family doctors in the region and more then 20%, have need
hospitalization, for several days, because of the mentioned disease disorders 3 children
died during this time, because of severe complications. The detected infectious microbial
etiology, were determined in authorized laboratories, in which it was identified: Shigella
spp, Salmonella spp Campylobacter spp, and Yersinia spp. or Rotavirus Giardia, and Fungi
species. Most number of cases appeared in children, followed by elderly or adult people, as
quantified number of determination.
In light of these data, acute diarrheal illness had to be considered a major public health
issue against which control efforts are needed. Public health surveillance and response in
the field of infectious acute diarrhea include obligatory strategies of infection control.