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Testing in acute diarrhea • “expensive, uncomfortable, low yield; • labor intensive” • for acute diarrhea, yield
Gastroenteritis syndromes • Emesis and diarrhea • 80% food related or oralfecal (infants) • Secondary transmission; carrier of • infective particles for 2 weeks • Prognosis worse in infants and elderly • Cultures if publichealth concerns • (E coli; salmonella; shigella, plus • hepatitis A) • testing for research or epidemiology • Serology for persons with asymptomatic disease
Page 1 and 2: Acute Diarrhea Evaluation in Primar
Page 3 and 4: Definition— —”Acute” • Pa
Page 5 and 6: Initial Evaluation • Evaluation p
Page 7 and 8: Initial evaluationdiagnostic poss
Page 9 and 10: Food Poisoning Syndromes • Prefor
Page 11: GI disease not related to food •
Page 15 and 16: Calicivirus • 90% of epidemic gas
Page 17 and 18: Rotavirus • Major illness in very
Page 19 and 20: Traveller’s diarrhea • Usually
Page 21 and 22: Foodrelated gastrointestinal infe
Page 23 and 24: salmonella • Most common foodbo
Page 25 and 26: Salmonella (continued) • Treatmen
Page 27 and 28: E.coli O157:H7 (Enterohemorrhargic
Page 29 and 30: Campylobacter jejuni • Common; ra
Page 31 and 32: Clostridium difficile • No longer

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