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Infectious Diarrhea

AUTHOR:
Joseph Mort
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
  1. Develop a differential diagnosis for the pathogens that cause traveler’s diarrhea.
  2. Recognize food poisoning as a toxin-mediated process and know typical symptoms, timing, and foods associated with food poisoning caused by common pathogens.
  3. List pathogens that cause bloody diarrhea and proper management of these patients.
  4. List the clinically important strains of E. coli and the mechanism of virulence factors associated with each.
  5. Describe the risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnostic tests, and treatment of C. difficile colitis.
Section
AccessMedicine > Huppert’s Notes: Pathophysiology and Clinical Pearls for Internal Medicine > Approaches and Chief Complaints in Gastroenterology > DIARRHEA
Chapter
AccessMedicine > Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2024 > Acute Infectious Diarrhea
Case File
AccessMedicine > Sherris and Ryan's Medical Microbiology Cases > Case 22 > Enterobacteriaceae
Case File
AccessMedicine > Resident Readiness®: Internal Medicine > Case 25 > C-Difficile Infection
Case File
AccessMedicine > Pathophysiology of Disease Cases > Case 16 > Diarrhea, Infectious
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > GI/Hepatology > Diarrhea, Inflammatory Bacterial
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > GI/Hepatology > Diarrhea, Parasitic
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > GI/Hepatology > Diarrhea, Viral
Section
AccessMedicine > The Infographic Guide to Medicine > GI/Hepatology > Diarrhea, Watery Bacterial

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