Oral Rehydration

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The median life expectancy hovers around 15 years throughout large segments of the developing world, which includes over two thirds of the world's population. Current estimates indicate that in the most densely populated areas of the world, about half the childhood mortality is caused by acute diarrheal illnesses, either directly or as a result of the vicious diarrhea–malnutrition cycle.1 Thus, acute diarrheal illnesses are probably the major cause of death on a global scale.2 The microorganisms responsible for such acute diarrheal diseases were poorly defined before the 1970s. It is now clear that rotavirus and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are the . . .

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