Gastroenteritis Flashcards
Campylobacter
Raw poultry, sour milk, shellfish,
most common
Antibiotic for Campylobacter
Ciprofloaxin, erithromycin
Salmonella
Cream cakes, poultry, meat, egg, farm animals
Enteric fever, outbreaks
O-antigen in blood culture
Antibiotic for Salmonella
Ciprofloaxin
E-Coli
Beef, milk
Verotoxin VTEC
HUS!!!!! - renal failure in children, bloody diarrhoea, high WBC
no antibiotics, sad times
Staph Aureus
Meat, watery diarrhoea
Typhoid
fever, rash-rose spots
Rotavirus
Children
Diarrhoea, vomiting
NO blood, watery stool
Norovirus
Diarrhoea in adults, vom in children
do PCR
Bloody diarrhoea
Shigella, Salmonella, E-coli, Campylobacter, Amoebiasis, IBD
Cholera
rice-water like stool
Cryptosporidiosis
petting zoo, children/immunocompromised, AIDS, diarrhoea
Antibiotic for Typhoid
Ciprofloaxin, cefotaxime
Antibiotic for shigella
Ciprofloaxin