Acute enteric infections with invasive diarrhoea in children: epidemiology, microbiology, pathogenetic and clinical specificities
The article deals with the problems of the etiological structure, epidemiology and pathogenesis of acute enteric infections with invasive diarrhoea in children. The causes of the incidence of acute enteric infections in various subjects of the Russian Federation are discussed in detail, the dynamic of the epidemiological process in the country for the period from 2011 to 2012, and in the Smolensk region from 2007 to 2012 has been described. Special attention is paid to both microbiological characteristics of shigella and salmonella and specificities of the clinical course of shigelloses and salmonelloses in children.