Nitric oxide production in acute gastroenteritis in Indian children

Thuppal Varadachari Sowmyanarayanan, Sathish Kumar Natarajan, Anup Ramachandran, Rajiv Sarkar, Prabhakar Devarajan Moses, Anna Simon, Indira Agarwal, Solomon Christopher, Gagandeep Kang

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Abstract

This study compared nitric oxide (NO) levels in 110 children with, and 110 children without, infectious gastroenteritis. Post-infection intestinal function was assessed in a subset. At least one pathogen was identified in 47.2% of cases. The most common diarrhoeal pathogens were rotavirus (22.7%) and norovirus genogroup II (11.8%). The levels of NO measured by median urinary nitrite:creatinine ratio were significantly higher in children with diarrhoea [23.6; interquartile range (IQR) 12.3-46.7] than without diarrhoea (7.8; IQR 4.1-13.2), P < 0.001. The ratio was not significantly different between diarrhoeal cases with and without pathogens (P = 0.148). Six of twelve children tested had intestinal dysfunction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)849-851
Number of pages3
JournalTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume103
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Acute gastroenteritis
  • Children
  • India
  • Intestinal permeability
  • Nitric oxide
  • Rotavirus

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Parasitology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases

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