...
Nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea
Fried rice
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Age
Most of the morbidity and mortality from enteric pathogens ... specific foods and the time of onset of the diarrhea
after a meal can provide clues to the bacterial cause of the illness. Potential causes
of bacterial food...
... cyclase and elevation of intracellular cyclic GMP. Some enterotoxigenic
strains of E. coli produce both LT and ST.
Bacterial cytotoxins, in contrast, destroy intestinal mucosal cells and
produce ... parahaemolyticus, and Clostridium difficile. S. dysenteriae type 1
and Shiga toxin–producing strains of E. coli produce potent cytotoxins and have
been associated with outbreaks o...
... bacterial
food poisoning is shown in Fig. 122- 1.
Figure 122- 1
Clinical algorithm for the approach to patients with community-
acquired infectious diarrhea or bacterial food poisoning.
... fever and shedding of organisms, while patients
Approach to the Patient: Infectious Diarrhea or Bacterial Food
Poisoning
The approach to the patient with possible infect...
...
listed in Table 122- 2 are observed.
Table 122- 2 Post-
Diarrhea Complications of Acute Infectious
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History ... is more sensitive and is available in latex agglutination and
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay formats. Causes of acute infectious diarrhea,
categorized...
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Table 122- 3 Epidemiology of Traveler's Diarrhea
... the normal colonic flora and allowing the
multiplication of C. difficile (Chap. 123).
Unknown 20
Illness improves with
antibacterial therapy,
implicating bacterial diarrhea
Source: ... for newborns.
norov...
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B. cereus can produce either a syndrome with ... examination, and evaluation of dehydration severity. Empirical
regimens for the treatment of traveler's diarrhea are listed in Table 122- 5.
Not all food poisoning has a bacterial cause. Nonbacterial ... MacConkey pla...
... Bobak DA: Bacterial and protozoal gastroenteritis. N Engl J
Med 325:327, 1991 [PMID: 2057037]
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