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| Afrebrile watery diarrhea, rice water, vomiting, hypotension, sunken eyes. |
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| Afrebile,watery diarrhea, less severe than cholera. Abrupt onset. Travelers and weanling. |
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| Afebrile,food toxin, vomiting, diarrhea 1-6h, in situ toxin production, nausea, abdominal cramps. Custard, potato salad. |
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| Afebrile,food toxin, vomiting, diarrhea 10-12h, in situ toxin production, nausea, abdominal cramps. Grains, rice, potatoes, vegetables. |
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| Afebrile,food toxin, vomiting, diarrhea 1-6h, in situ toxin production, nausea, abdominal cramps. Meat,poultry, gravy. |
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| Afebrile, watery diarrhea, foul smelling, greasy stools, flatulence. 1-2w. |
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| Afebrile, explosive watery diarrhea, mucous, flatulence, nausea, vomiting.2w. immunocompromised. |
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| Afebrile, watery diarrhea, vomiting, flatulence, nausea. Asia and S. America. Fruit. Chronic diarrhea in AIDS. |
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| Afebrile, bloody diarrhea/feces, nausea, low dose, zoonosis, children and elderly affected. Shiga-toxin. Non-invasive. |
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| Afebrile, bloody diarrhea/feces, nausea, low dose, zoonosis, children and elderly affected. Shiga-toxin. Invasive. |
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| Acute amoebic colitis, invasive, cyst forming, low dose, human reservoir(host), direct contact, fecal/oral, sexual, travelers, flask-like ulcers. |
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| Entamoeba histolytica(amoebic dysentery) |
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| Bloody diarrhea, fever, nausea, vomiting, exotoxin, herd animals, enzootic, spores, ingested through infected meat. OK, LA, CO, NM. |
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| Acute or fulminant diarrhea, assoc. w/pseudomembranous colitis, antibiotic assoc., toxin, severe:fever, foul smelling greenish diarrhea, anorexia, malaise. AAPMC |
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| Clostridium difficile (pseudomembranous) |
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| Acute or fulminant diarrhea, assoc. w/pseudomembranous colitis, antibiotic assoc., toxin, foul smelling greenish diarrhea, fever, anorexia. No pseudomembrane. |
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| Clostridium difficile (AAC) antiobiotic associated |
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| Major cause of endemic severe diarrhea, infants, young children. Winter.Fecal-oral. Diarrhea, vomiting, fever, 5-7d. stable on fomites(diaper stations) |
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| Diarrhea, vomiting, fever, headache. 1-2d. primarily older childrend & adults. Water, shellfish. |
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| Diarrhea, vomiting, fever, headache. 1-2d. 50% of US gastroenteritis cases. Nursing homes, hospitals. |
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| Invasive, diarrhea/dysentery, children 1-4y, food and water vehicle, sexual, low dose, facultative intracellular anaerobe, late summer-early fall, HUS, human host. |
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| Diarrhea/dysentery, invasive, bacteremia, late summer-early fall,fecal-oral, low dose, prodrome-fever headache, myalgia before diarrhea. |
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| Diarrhea/dysentery, invasive, infants, facultative intracellular,winter. |
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| Diarrhea/dysentery,facultative intracellular, normal flora of animals, high dose, summer-fall, children 6m-5y, survive in macrophages. |
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| Bloody diarrhea, fever, moves to bloody dysentery,raw or under cooked shrimp. |
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| Gastroenteritis, fulminant cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis, bacteremia. patients w/liver dysfunction, Fe overload, diabetics. Raw oysters. #1 seafood fatalities. |
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| Pernicious anemia,fish intermediate host, humans are definitive host, eat cyst in fish, cestode. |
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| Beef tapeworm, cattle intermediate, humans definitive host, eat cysts. |
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| Pork tapeworm, cestode, pigs intermediate host, humans definitive or intermediate host. |
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| Human host, children, thumbsuckers, inhale or ingest ova. Female leaves anus and lays eggs. |
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| Enterobiasis(Enterobius vermicularis) Helminth nematode, pinworm |
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| Southeastern US, ingest eggs, heavy infection symptoms bloody diarrhea, rectal prolapse |
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| Trichuriasis Trichuris trichuria, whipworm, nematode |
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| Southern US, live 1-2 years in host, spread to liver and heart and lung, cramps, malaise, organ damage. |
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| Ascariasis Ascaris lumbricoides |
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