Freqüência dos pacientes de cólera com diarréia "água-de-arroz" em Fortaleza, Ceará, 1993

Abstract

In a sample of 148 patients with diarrhea, of 4 Fortaleza public hospitals, with 57 women and 91 men, 98 were cholera confirmed cases. Only in 19 of them, rice-water" diarrhea was present. Association between cholera diagnosis _ and "rice-water" diarrhea could not be confirmed. We found, for the characteristic under study a 19.38 % sensibility, leading to great number of false negative when used in clinicaldiagnosis, and 92 % specificity.