Exam 1: GI Final Flashcards
Infectious Enterocolitis
Microbial infections causing inflammation and diarrhea
Major global health problem causing large amounts of child and infant deaths
Infectious Enterocolitis
Vomiting and rice water diarrhea, which can lead to hypovolemic shock
Cholera
Gram - bacteria, comma-shaped
Vibrio cholerae
Cholera toxin opens…
CFTR
Massive Cl ion secretion
Cholera transmission
Fecal oral (contaminated water)
India and Africa
70% cases lethal, MC in 24 hrs
Cholera
Traveler’s diarrhea MC due to what organism
E. coli
> 3 unformed or loose stools in 24 hrs , usual recover within few days
Traveler’s diarrhea
Transmission of traveler’s diarrhea
Fecal oral (contaminated water)
Other microbes that can cause traveler’s diarrhea
Shigella C. Jejuni Salmonella Entamoeba histolytica Norwalk virus Rotavirus
MC bacterial enteric pathogen in US
Campylobacter Enterocolitis
Transmission of c. Jejuni
Contaminated chicken
Water
Milk
C jejuni enterotoxins may cause ___ and ___
Dysentery and fever
Campylobacter enterocolitis may initiate
Reactive arthritis or GBS
Acute self-limited colitis
Camp. Jejuni
Shigella
E. coli
Salmonella
Last <1 month
If acute self limited colitis caused by camp jejuni…
Neutrophils congregate
Crypt abscess
If acute self-limited colitis caused by E. coli
Neutrophils congregate
Normal crypt architecture
Salmonella can be found on what animals
Snakes
Lizards
Salamanders
Pseudomembranous colitis aka
Antibiotic associated colitis
C-diff colitis
C diff enterotoxins cause
Inflammation
Necrosis
Risks for pseudomembranous colitis
Antibiotics
Old age
Lowered immunity
Pseudomembranes in c diff composed of
Cellular debris
WBCs
Half of all gastroenteritis
Viral gastroenteritis
Viral gastroenteritis in children 6 months -2 yrs is caused by
Rotavirus
Viral gastroenteritis in adults caused by
Norovirus
Viral gastroenteritis can affect either __ or ___
Stomach or SI
Parasitic disease affects ____ of world’s population
> half