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Types of infectious (nonviral) • Secretory • toxin related diarrhea • Inflammatory • locally active toxin (shiga);direct invasion • may have systemic toxin as well • (motilityrelated factors)
salmonella • Most common foodborn infection • Attack rates highest in those 75 • Predisposing conditions: hemolytic anemia • (esp sickle cell disease; achlorhydria • (esp after gastric surgery);prior antibiotics • immunosuppression; schistosomaisis • Food source often from farm workers • Domestic animals & pets as carriers
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 and 12: GI disease not related to food •
Page 13 and 14: Gastroenteritis syndromes • Emesi
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: Foodrelated gastrointestinal infe
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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