Jaundice and Infantile Diarrhoea

Focal Bacterial Infections

“…Although mild periportal parenchymal necrosis was observed in a few infants, hepatocellular damage was minimal or absent in most. Similar lesions have been found in infants dying with sepsis [80] and infantile diarrhea [81].…”

“…The literature has documented about 25 cases, of which 9 were seen in association with an epidemic of neonatal enteritis caused by Salmonella enteritidis [111]. Of the remaining infants, 16 were the subjects of isolated case reports [24,103,[112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123], and 3 died of other causes with inflammatory changes in the gallbladder described as an incidental finding at autopsy [81,95,124]. A tissue diagnosis of "chronic cholecystitis" was established in an infant whose biliary disease apparently began at 6 days of age [125].…”