EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE COURSE OF ACUTE INTESTINAL INFECTIONS CAUSED BY ESCHERICHIA IN CHILDREN

Clinical, epidemiological and laboratory microbiological analysis shows that diarrhea of Escherichia etiology is characterized by: seasonality; gastroenteritis clinic with moderate or mild pain syndrome; the nature of the stool (mostly watery, yellow, greenish-yellow in color without pathological impurities) and the localization of pain in the epigastric and/or umbilical areas; more rumbling in the stomach, mild or moderate signs of dehydration and/or intoxication; the presence of catarrhal symptoms; absence of inflammatory changes in the hemo- and coprogram; predominantly moderate course of the disease with a duration of 3 to 5 days.