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| diarrhea causes greatest morbidity in which age group |
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| diarrhea cuases greatest mortality in which age group? |
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| preformed toxins of S. aureus and B. cereus |
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| vomiting without fever w/in 2-7 hours of eating |
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| low dose GI infections (5); can be acquired from touching a surface |
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| shigella, E. coli 0157: H7; Giardia, Cryptosporidium parvum, and norwalk virus |
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| intermediate dose GI pathogens (2); could be in water but not person-person |
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| salmonella and campylobacter |
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| high dose GI pathogens (2); need contaminated food |
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| classically produce infantile outbreaks in hospital nurseries; attach-and-effacing histopathology with microvillus destruction |
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| major cause of travelers diarrhea; has LT/ST toxins |
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| like cholera; adenylate cyclase mechanism |
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| small mw toxin works via guanylate cyclase |
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| invasive diarrhea caused by a form of E. coli; pretty rare |
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| contaminated beef, hemorrhagic colitis (bloody diarrhea w/o fever) |
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| hemolytic uremic syndrome (destruction of RVC and glomerulus) |
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| persistent diarrhea in children and cause of AIDS diarrhea; causes malabsorption, "stacked brick" appearance |
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| diarrhea strain that adheres to HEp-2 cells without aggregation; prob not important |
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| diffusely adherent E. coli (DAEC) |
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| profuse, watery diarrhea resulting in life-threatening dehydration; adheres to small bowel mucosa |
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| mild to moderate watery diarrhea with significant abdominal pain and cramps 8-14 hours after food consumption |
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| C. perfringens; heat labile enterotoxin increase Cl secretion and blocks Na absorption |
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| small volume but many stools involved in this small bowel disease that also includes watery diarrea and high fever; bloody poo |
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| diarrhea due to penetration of epithelium odistal ileum and colon; bacteremia |
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| dysentery, feer, grows best at 42C, resistant to quinolones |
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| tropical areas, persistent diarrhea and dysentery, water-associated pathogen |
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| diarrhea due to travel to undeveloped regions and eating seafood there |
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| hospitalization for >72 hours, antibiotic therapy within past 2 months, and exogenously acquired infection |
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| C. difficile (has A&B toxins) treat with vancocmycin |
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| small virus producing institutional/community outbreaks; resistant to chlorine; associated with shellfish; includes diarrhea and vomiting |
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| most common cause of pediatric diarrhea, worldwide with winter peak; #1 killer of <1 y/o in developing countries |
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| pediatric diarrhea which cannot be cultivated by normal means, cause of acute diarrhea |
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| infantile gastroenteritis in day care centers, hospitalized children and nosocomial outbreaks |
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| first exposure causes illness, can be chronic and locates to small bowel causing malabsorption and disaccharidase deficiency; found in Russia and mountainous North America |
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| diarrhea among poor people and may cause liver abscesses particularly in men |
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| profuse diarrhea in homosexual males w/ AIDS, transmitted through bad water |
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| acid fast, coccidian protozoa found in Nepal, Haiti and Peru that causes watery diarrhea in a relapsing, cyclical pattern |
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| patient with diarrhea recently traveled to high risk areas |
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| ETEC, giardiasis or crypto |
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| recent antimicrobial therapy |
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| illness in male homosexual |
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| due to accelerated fecal-oral transmission |
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| been in a day care center recently |
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| increased occurence of everything, esp low dose pathogens |
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| If there are mulitple cases of diarrhea |
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| there could be an outbreak... swine flu is coming! |
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| need fluid therapy and possible hospitalization |
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| B. cereus or viral gastroenteritis like norwalk |
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| all of those bacterial agents + E. histolytica |
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| diarrhea lasting over 2 weeks |
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| probably a parasite, worry about post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome |
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