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Dearth of information regarding physicians' diarrhoea-related knowledge and practice in India ncessitated this cross-sectional study of allopathic practitioners in the slums of Kolkata, to assess the distribution and interrelationship between physicians' characteristics, knowledge and practice regarding diarrhoea. A total of 264 randomly selected consenting practitioners were interviewed using a field-tested questionnaire. Nineteen percent had good overall knowledge, 49% and 80% prescribed antibiotics to diarrhoea and cholera patients, respectively, and 55% advised stool examination for every case. Qualified and Government physicians had better knowledge regarding diarrhoea [MBBS: odds ratio (OR) 5\u00b796,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b7001; postgraduates: OR 9\u00b733,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b7001; Government physicians: OR 11\u00b749,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b70001] and were less likely to prescribe antibiotics for all diarrhoea cases (MBBS: OR 0\u00b730,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00\u00b7002; postgraduates: OR 0\u00b720,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b7001; Government physicians OR 0\u00b724,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b7029). Better knowledge was associated with a lower likelihood of prescribing antibiotics for diarrhoea (OR 0\u00b772,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00\u00b7001), cholera (OR 0\u00b778,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00\u00b7027) and investigative procedure (OR 0\u00b785,<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a00\u00b7028). 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