The retrospective study reviewed 114 patients under 5 year old, hospitalized for intussusception (IS) over 3 years period (2000-2002) in General Hospital of Khanh Hoa province. The number of cases vary between 29 to 48 annually. Boy to girl ratio was 2:1. 64% of cases were children under 1 year old. The peak of IS was observed between 4 to 9 month old and had no difference in seasonal prevalence. Most common symptoms were abdominal pain, vomiting and abdominal mass. 88% of cases were diagnosed by ultrasound, 12% were confirmed by clinical diagnosis. Majority of cases was cured by radiological reduction. 5 cases must operated after failure of radiological reduction. No fatal case was reported
Intussusception ; child ; epidemiology ; diagnosis ; Therapeutics

From 1998, mass immunization using the locally-produced, killed oral cholera vaccine was conducted in half of the communes of Hue city followed by mass immunization of the remaining communes in 2000. In 2003, a cholera outbreak occurred in the city. The objective of the study is to assess the effects of vaccine after 3-5 years. The control group had the same address, sex and age with cholera patients. From May – August 2003, a total of 115 confirmed cholera cases were detected in Hue city. In this study, 48 cases were positive culture-confirmed and 21 cases was clinically suspected cholera. 62% cases had been vaccinated compared with 75% of the controls. The results showed that, using cholera vaccine in 1998 or 2000 conferred 50% protection against cholera during the 2003 outbreak
Cholera Vaccines ; Vaccination ; immunization

From June 2002 to April 2003, at the Department of Transmissible diseases and the Department of Neonate infants of the Central Hospital of Pediatry and at the Department of Pediatry of Bach Mai Hospital, 189 blood samples of under 5 years old children, who did not use antibiotics within 7 days, underwent a culture. From them, 28 strains of 11 genera of bacteria were isolated. The rate of positive blood culture accounted for 14.8%, in neonate infants 19.6%, there were 71.3% sepsis among under 1 year old children, among them gram(+) bacteria 53.5% were with mainly staphyloccocus, gram(-) bacteria mainly Klebsiella pneumoniae and E.Coli 45.6%. Some bacteria were resistant to common antibiotics such as ampicillin and chloramphenicol
Bacteremia ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Child

In a double blinded study which was conducted at 3 kindergartens of 3 communes of Thanh Ba district and Phu Tho district showed that the effectiveness of Vi-rEPA for typhoid fever in 2-5 year old children reached to 89% for 46 months. Vi-rEPA containing 25mg of Vi induced more than 8 fold rise of IgG anti-Vi in all vaccines. The dosage immunogenicity study of 5, 12.5 and 25mg of Vi-rEPA was injected 6 weeks apart and blood samples were taken before, 10 weeks and 1 year after the first injection. At 10 weeks, the antibody levels of children with 25 mg injections were higher than that of children with 12.5mg and 5mg injection, and all 3 groups had antibody levels declined 7 folds, but still remained significantly higher than before immunization. This study confirmed the safety and immunogenicity of Vi-rEPA
Vaccines ; Typhoid Fever ; child ; blood

A study was implemented to determine the frequency of Beijing family and atypical Beijing, two sub-groups of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing clade detected in Netherlands, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, and to assess the associations between these strains and patient characteristics. The typical Beijing family isolates were more prevalent than atypical Beijing strains and the former isolated from BCG-vaccinated individuals was also more frequently than the latter. The proportion of Beijing family strains was lowest among the patients aged over 75 years. Furthermore, atypical Beijing isolates were resistant to Isoniazide and several drugs, but less often resistant to Streptomycine than the Beijing family isolates
Drug Resistance ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; Vaccination ; Mycobacterium bovis

A survey conducted from 1-2/2000 in the 7 urban districts of Hanoi, Vietnam showed that overall use rate for Hib vaccine among children under 5 year of age was 3.2% and coverage for meningoccoal vaccine was 1.4%.
Vaccines ; Haemophilus influenzae type b

57 rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis strains isolated from Ha Noi Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases and Pham Ngoc Thach Tuberculosis Center of Ho Chi Minh City were involved in this study. The regimen included 2-month SHRZ and 4-month HR. All of these strains were resistant to rifampicin. It was found that rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis strains had mutations on rpoB gene. The mutation frequency of tuberculosis trains isolated from Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City was highest on 526 locus (55% and 41.6%, respectively) and 531 locus (30% and 33%, respectively).
Tuberculosis ; Mutation ; Rifampin

The cell-mediated immunity of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis patients was followed up during treatment with chemotherapy plus immunotherapy. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the group treated with chemotherapy and the group treated with chemotherapy plus immunotherapy
Tuberculosis ; drug therapy ; Immunotherapy

Population-based epidemiologic surveillance for bacterial meningitis in Hanoi from 2000 to 2002. The population under surveillance consists of children under 5 years of age, living in Hanoi urban districts. The results showed that bacterial meningitis represents an important cause of infant and childhood morbidity in Vietnam.
Meningitis, Bacterial ; epidemiology

A randomized investigation was conducted in 30 of total 80 private pharmacies registered enterprise at Nha Trang city from Mar to Apr 2004 to determine real situation of treatment diarrhea for children under advice of the pharmacies. Results: rate of pharmacies advising treatment for diarrhea by ORS are relatively low while ORS drug is used largely and effectively in treatment diarrhea. 87% pharmacies have provided incorrect counseling to their customers.
Diarrhea ; Child ; Pharmacies