Salmonellosis Features in Children Today

• Main Authors: O.V. Korbut, E.A. Dmitrieva, G.G. Yukhimenko, A.R. Buts, O.V. Vigovskaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House Zaslavsky 2016-09-01
• Series: Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ
• Subjects: salmonellosis; children; clinical picture; treatment; antibiotic treatment
• Online Access: http://ai.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/81719
• ISSN: 2312-413X; 2312-4148

There were studied the features of clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment of salmonella infection in 109 children aged from 4 months to 14 years, who were hospitalized in the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children’s Clinical Hospital № 2 in Kiev. Salmonellosis was found to occur mostly in children of the first three years of life have (51.4 %). In 95.4 % of patients food mode of transmission prevailed. All the patients had gastrointestinal form of salmonellosis; moderate forms of infection (94.4 %) prevailed. The clinical picture for all the children at the present stage was characte­rized by the acute onset with the development of intoxication syndrome within the first hours, gastrointestinal dysfunction, involving all gastrointestinal area in the process in half of the cases (50.5 %) and the presence of colitis syndrome in most patients (67.9 %). Ta­king into account the parameters of antibioticgram, ceftriaxone and nitrofuran cannot be the drugs of choice for the treatment of salmonellosis at the present stage.