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Gastroenteritis syndromes<br />

• Emesis and diarrhea<br />

• 80% food related or oral­fecal (<strong>in</strong>fants)<br />

• Secondary transmission; carrier of<br />

• <strong>in</strong>fective particles for 2 weeks<br />

• Prognosis worse <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>fants and elderly<br />

• Cultures if public­health concerns<br />

• (E coli; salmonella; shigella, plus<br />

• hepatitis A)<br />

• test<strong>in</strong>g for research or epidemiology<br />

• Serology for persons with asymptomatic disease

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