Enteritis Chronic

85% of children with chronic enteritis are children of preschool and primary school age. 65–75% of adult patients without an acute phase of the disease suffer from the disease every year, and half of patients have this disease throughout their lives. In women, the development of the disease occurs 2–4 times more often than in men. This is due to dietary habits and a violation of the qualitative composition of the intestinal microflora. In ancient times, some forms of the disease were called diphtheria. In 1937, epidemiologist Yakov Gromashevsky renamed “diphtheria” to “typhoid” - from the typhus infection, which it often turned into. Some authors believe that the disease was discovered by the American microbiologist Jacob A. Miescher, who in 1882 isolated bacteria from a stomach ulcer that later became known as “Escherichia coli.” The microorganism was known by this name for many years, until at the beginning of the 20th century the genus of E. coli Bacterium coli, known as “inframicrococcus” (by analogy with inframicrobes), was discovered. However, even after this