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C.difficile

GI bleed

Traveller's diarrhoea:

  • Bact:
    • E coli (enteropathogenic: EPEC, enterotoxigenic: ETEC, enteroaggregative: EAEC; enteroinvasive EIEC; enterohaemorrhagic EHEC)
    • Campylobacter
    • Aeromonas
    • Shigella
    • Salmonella
    • Vibrio (cholerae) in epidemics; Vibrio parahaemolyticus in seafood poisoning
    • HIV: Mycobacterium avium
  • Viral: 30-40% in affluent countries
    • Rotavirus
    • Norovirus
    • enteric adenoviruses
    • CMV (eg HIV)
  • Parasitic:
    • Giardia lamblia (eg HIV)
    • Cryptosporidium parvum (eg HIV)
    • Cyclospora cayetanensis (eg HIV)
    • [non-pathogenic isolates: Entamoeba coli, Endolimax nana, lodamoeba butschlii, Blastocystis hominis] 
    • HIV: also Isospora belli, Entamoeba histolytica
 if persistent: Shigella, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, EPEC, EAEC, Entamoeba
 
 
Subpages (2): Typhoid UC
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