Dysentery

Balantidial dysentery Balantidiasis Bales of cotton Balke process Balias... 

Opium is the dried, powdered sap of the unripe seed pod of Papaver somniferum, a poppy plant indigenous to Asia minor. Theophrastus described its medical properties in the third century BC, but the Sumerians, ca BC 4000, probably perceived its utility. Arab physicians knew of the dmg, and Arab traders carried it to the Orient where it was used as a treatment for dysentery. Paracelsus is credited with repopularizing the dmg in western Europe in the early sixteenth century by formulating opium into "laudanum", which is still in use. More than 20 different alkaloids (qv) of two different classes comprise 25% of the weight of dry opium. The benzylisoquinolines, characterized by papaverine [58-74-2] (1.0%), a smooth muscle relaxant, and noscapine [128-62-1] (6.0%), an antitussive agent, do not have any analgesic effects. The phenanthrenes, the second group, are the more common and include 10% morphine (1, = R = H), 0.5% codeine [76-57-3], C gH2 N03, (1, R = H, R = CH3), and 0.2 thebaine [115-37-7], C 2H2 N03, (2). 

Nifuraldezone. Aminooxoacetic acid [(5-nitro-2-furanyl)methylene]-hydrazide, nifiiraldezone, is prepared by the reaction of 5-nitro-2-furancarboxaldehyde with semioxamazide. The product is useful in the treatment of dysentery in calves (39). 

In the United States, 100 times more bacitracin by weight is used as a feed additive than for human medicine. Most of this is BMD but some is the zinc salt. BMD can be used in subtherapeutic nutritional dosages for increase in feed efficiency and for growth promotion in poultry, swine, and feedlot cattie at concentrations of 2.6—33 g/t of feed (78,81,82). Prophylactic or therapeutic medicinal dosing at higher concentrations is used for necrotic enteritis in chickens, transmissable enteritis in turkeys, ulcerative enteritis in quail, dysentery in swine, and Hver abcess in cattie (see Feeds and feed additives). 

Treponema hjoepsenteriae a causative agent of swine dysentery, is sensitive to polyether antibiotics at low concentrations in vitro. In pigs, lasalocid was effective in controlling dysentery at levels of 0.005—0.05% in feeds (167). Several species of Mycoplasma are inhibited in vitro at a MIC range of 2.0—25 p./mL of polyethers including narasin, cartiomycin, and K41 (164). 

Paromomycin. Paromomycin [7542-37-2] is a broad-spectmm antibiotic that has been used in the treatment of fi nana and T. saginata and amebiasis, and also as an antibacterial agent in cases of diarrhea and dysentery (see Antibiotics, oligosaccharides). 

Balantidiasis (balantidiosis, balantidial dysentery), an intestinal disease seen almost worldwide, is caused by the large ciUated protozoan, balantidium coll The organism is usually found in the lumen of the large intestine of humans and animals. Cysts formed in the lumen of the colon or in freshly evacuated feces of humans or domesticated and wild animals, can colonize the colon and terminal ileum of new hosts by the latter s ingestion of contaminated food or water. The hog has been found to be the most heavily parasitized host. Its association with the rat may be a means for maintaining a reservoir infection in the two animals. 

Bismuth compounds were once employed for the treatment of amoebic dysentery, certain skin diseases, and several spirochetal diseases besides syphilis, but these substances are now seldom considered the dmgs of choice. Various insoluble preparations of bismuth, especially the subcarbonate, subnitrate, subgaHate, subcitrate, and subsahcylate, are stiU employed for the treatment of ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders, even though use for these purposes is often supported largely by tradition. With a few possible exceptions, it is now difficult to justify the presence of bismuth compounds in a modem therapeutic armamentarium. A review of the biological activity of organobismuth compounds has been pubHshed (179). 

Certain halogen derivatives of 8-hydroxyquinoline have a record of therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of cutaneous fungus infections and also of amebic dysentery. Among these are 5-chloro-7-iodo-8-quinolinol [130-26-7] (iodochlorhydroxyquin, Vioform), 5,7-diiodo-8-hydroxyquinoline [83-73-8] (diiodohydroxyquin), and sodium 7-iodo-8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonate [885-04-1] (chiniofon) (196—198). 

Alloxan (1003) has been observed in the mucus associated with dysentery and it was the very first pyrimidine made synthetically when Brugnatelli oxidized uric acid in 1818. Alloxan has an interesting diabetogenic action which appears to be associated with removal of essential zinc from insulin by chelation. Such permanent diabetes may be induced in fish, dogs, cats, sheep, some birds, monkeys and other creatures, but not in man, owls or guinea-pigs certain pyrimidines related to alloxan show some such activity. 

Bacteria are smaller than protozoa and are responsible for many diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, diarrhea, and dysentery. Pathogenic bacteria range in size from 0.2 to 0.6 /tm, and a 0.2 /tm filter is necessary to prevent transmission. Contamination of water supplies by bacteria is blamed for the cholera epidemics, which devastate undeveloped countries from time to time. Even in the U.S., E. coli is frequently found to contaminated water supplies. Fortunately, E. coli is relatively harmless as pathogens go, and the problem isn t so much with E. coli found, but the fear that other bacteria may have contaminated the water as well. Never the less, dehydration from diarrhea caused by E. coli has resulted in fatalities. 

Shigella sp Shigellosis bacillary dysentery acute diarrhea... 

Pathogenic organisms Bacteria, viruses or cysts which cause disease (typhoid, cholera, dysentery) in a host (such as a person). There are many types of bacteria (non-pathogenic) which do NOT cause disease. Many beneficial bacteria are found in wastewater treatment processes actively cleaning up organic wastes. 

Kurchi bark is principally used in India as a remedy for amoebic dysentery, and in recent years there has been a revival of medical interest in the drug in this eonneetion. It is generally used in the form of a bark extract but, in imitation of emetine bismuth iodide, kurchi bismuth iodide, consisting of the bismuth iodides of the mixed alkaloids of the bark, has also been used. On the pharmaceutical side Datta and Bal have studied the pharmacognosy of the bark and a method of alkaloidal assay has been devised by Schroff and Dhir, who have also described a process for the preparation of kurchi bismuth iodide, a product for which they, and also Mukherjee and Dutta, have provided methods of assay. 

Blut rot, n. hemoglobin hematin, ruhr, /. dysentery. s ure, /, thiocyanic acid. 06s, scheibe, /. blood corpuscle. schlag, m. apoplexy. seuche, /. anthrax. stein, m. bloodstone, hematite. 

Darm-bein, n. ilium, -driiae, /. intestinal gland, -entziindung, /. enteritis, -fkule, / dysentery, -fell. n. peritoneum, -gang, m. 

Shiga toxin is produced (i) by Shigella cfysenterica, the cause of bacillary dysentery, (ii) by certain E. coli strains (EHEC, enterohaemorrhagic E. coli cause of the... 

CA C1 C01.050 Histolysain Potential drug target for amoebic dysentery... 

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