Infectious Diarrhea Matching
| giardia antigen stool assay |
| Common antibiotic causes of colitis: |
| Ampicillin, clindamycin, tetracycline, cephalosporins |
| Most common cause of BACTERIAL gastroenteritis |
| Toxin A = enterotoxin; Toxin B = cytotoxin |
| Oral Rehydration Solution: |
| 3.5 g NaCl, 2.5 g Na HCO3, 1.5 g KCl, 20 g glucose, in 1L water |
| rice-water stools; poss hypotensive shock within 2 hrs; dose fx; tx rehydrate & 1 dose Cipro; untx’d 50% mortality |
| Severe cases of ETEC can be treated with: |
| SMZ/TMP or quinolone; prophylaxis not recommended |
| Lower abd cramps, diarrhea, fever, bloody, purulent stools & tenesmus; usu self-ltg (7 days) |
| E. coli groups = small bowel processes |
| Enterotoxigenic; enteropathogenic; enteroaggregative |
| E coli group = most common in developing countries |
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