THE INCIDENCE OF SHIGELOSIS AND SALMONELOSIS IN SHKODRA REGIONAL HOSPITAL DURING THE PERIOD 2008 ?2010

Infections of the gastrointestinal tract are caused by a wide variety of enteropathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Clinical manifestations depend on the organism and host response to infection and include asymptomatic infection, watery diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, and extra intestinal manifestations of infection. Generally, inflammatory diarrhea is associated with Aeromonas, Campylobacter jejune, Clostridium difficile, enteroinvasive E. coli, Shiga toxin?producing E. coli, Plesiomonas Shigelloides, Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Yersinia enterocolitica. Shigellosis and salmonellosis are increased in most developing regions and this fact is related to rapid population growth, increased urbanization, inadequate human waste treatment, limited water supply, and overburdened health care systems. In this article we have considered all hospitalized cases in Regional Hospital of Shkodra, with acute diarrhea. All cases diagnosed as shigellosis, salmonellosis typhoid’s and portables are diagnosed with culture proven because we don`t effort the serology method cause of expensive kits and provisions) in our hospitals. It is impossible to have this information because the hospital has not the high technology laboratory. It has very old equipments in the current laboratories and we use only the culture proven instead. The elaboration of datas is made by a simple method, descriptive and cumulative. Some dates analyzed with Microsoft Office Excel method are presented through graphics. In this article we consider the cases of salmonellosis and shigellosis infection diseases in District of Shkoder, during 2008-2010. The morbidity of these diseases is studied according selected age - groups, gender and socio - demographic characteristics (place of residence: rural vs. urban areas). The data are taken from the Statistic Office of Hospital and Statistic Office of Public Health.