Journal of Preventive Medicine  1998;8(2):92-96

Immunological prevention of enteric infections

Canh Gia Do

Keywords

Immunological prevention

Country

Viet Nam

Language

Vietnamese

Abstract

Nowadays the enteric infections are still the great concern over the world. According to the report from WHO, there is about 2.5 million deaths due to enteric infections every year in the developing countries: 120.000 deaths due to cholera, 380.000 deaths due to E.coli infections diarrhea excreting the toxin, 600.000 deaths due to dysentery, 600.000 deaths due to typhoid fever and 800.000 deaths due to rotavirus infectious diarrhea.