Diarrhea intro to ID

Question 1

Identify the two leading causes of infectious death worldwide.

Answer 1

Pneumonia + Diarrhea

Question 2

Identify the age group preferentially affected by these syndromes.

Answer 2

young and the old

Question 3

Identify the leading cause of morbidity and death with diarrhea.

Answer 3

rotavirus

Question 4

State the most reversible cause of morbidity and death with diarrhea.

Answer 4

Dehydration

Question 5

5) Compare and contrast inflammatory and non-inflammatory diarrhea clinically and anatomically.

Answer 5

non-inflammatory

• watery
• upper small bowel

Inflammatory

• increased inflammatory cells, WBC’s, RBCs
• colon

Question 6

6) Name 3 organisms that cause inflammatory and 3 that cause non-inflammatory diarrhea.

Answer 6

Inflammatory- C difficile, E coli 0157:H7, salmonella, C jejuni, shigella, E. Histolytica

Non-inflammatory-
Rotavirus, giardia, cholera, ETEC, Norwalk

Question 7

7) Identify the leading cause of acute bacterial diarrhea in U.S., all ages.

Answer 7

Campylobacter jejuni

Question 8

8) Describe the predominant cause of nosocomial diarrhea.

Answer 8

C. Difficile, most commonly associated with antibiotic use

symptoms may be mild diarrhea, watery or bloody, or may have fever, leukocytosis with severe colitis