Digestive Diseases Flashcards
Peptic Ulcers
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Abdominal pain
- Helicobacter pylori (Bacteria -)
- Fecal-oral transmission
Duodenal: Pain relieved by food
Gastric: Pain exacerbated by food
Cholera
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Bacterial Gastroenteritis
- Rice-water stool
- Vibrio cholerae (bacteria -)
- only vibrio in freshwater. MC vibrio to infect humans
- Fecal-oral (food/water)
Shigellosis
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
-Bacterial Gastroenteritis
-Aka Bacillary dysentery
-blood/pus/mucous poop
-4 species of shigella
S. Sonnei (2/3 US)
S. flexneri (1/3 US)
-produce shiga toxin
-fecal-oral on contaminated hands and food (COLD FOODS/SALADS)
Traveler’s Diarrhea
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
-Bacterial Gastroenteritis
-Watery diarrhea, N/V, cramps
- Escherichia coli 0157:H7
most prevalent e. coli
-Bacteria -
-Fecal-oral, undercooked beef or unpasteurized milk/fruit juice with poop
-E. coli usually causes GI infections, but GI infections are caused by other things more than e coli
Campylobacter Diarrhea
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Bloody frequent diarrhea
- 10+/day for 7-10 days
- Campylobacter jejuni
- MC cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the US
- contaminated milk, water, poultry MC
- COOK YOUR TURKEY!
Antimicrobial-Associated Diarrhea
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Bacterial Gastroenteritis
- Sever cases devolop PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS (colon sloughs off, fatal) -life threatening peritonitis
- Clostridium difficile (bacteria +)
- common nosocomial infxn
- extremely common opportunist after taking antimicrobials
Salmonellosis: acute bacterial gastroenteritis
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Salmonella food poisoning
- Nonbloody diarrhea, N/V, fever
- Salmonella enterica
- Enteritidis and Typhimurium
- Contaminated eggs, poultry, unpasteurized milk
- Aka “salmonella poisoning”
Salmonellosis: Typhoid Fever (enteric fever)
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Bacterial gastroenteritis
- Flu symptoms
- bacteremia can lead to peritonitis
- Salmonella enterica
- typhi, paratyphi
- Contaminated food or water
- Typhoid Mary (carrier)
Gastroenteritis is primarily caused by
A. Bacteria
B. Virus
VIRAL!! Norovirus big time
~5% bacterial (C. jejuni, C. difficile, E. coli, Salmonella, shigella)
Staphylococcal food poisoning
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- N/V, diarrhea, cramps
- Staph aureus (bacteria)
- contaminated food
Clostridial Food poisoning
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- cramps, watery diarrhea, NO FEVER NOR N/V
- Clostridium perfringens (bacteria +)
- contaminated meat
- benign, <24hrs
- reheat, refrigerate please
Yersinia Food poisoning
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Inflammation of intestinal tract
- diarrhea, fever (weeks-months)
- can mimic appendicitis
- yersinia enterocolitica (bacteria -)
- contaminated PORK, milk, water, tofu
- Likes to infect kids
Bacillus Cereus Food poisoning
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- Aka FRIED RICE SYNDROME
- Bacillus cereus (bacteria+)
- mild food poisoning
- rice cooked and held
Oral herpes
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
- HHV-1 (sometimes HHV-2)
- close contact with active lesions
- latent in trigeminal gang.
Mumps
- Symptoms
- Organisms
- Transmission
- Key Associations
-Painful enlargement of parotid salivary glands (parotitis)
-testicular swelling (orchitis)
sterility
-mumps virus (rubulavirus)
-Respiratory secretions
-Vaccine has almost eradicated