GI Infections Flashcards
Suprantigen in GI tract Vomiting, watery non-bloody diarrhoea B haemolytic colonies on blood agar From poor food handling Appears in tetrad clusters G stain
Staph Aureus
Reheated fried rice
Bacillus Cereus
Bacillus Cereus toxins (x2)
Heat stabile (emetic) and Heat labile (diarrhoeal)
Treatment Bacillus Cereus?
None, self limiting
Treatment S Aureus?
None, self limiting
Canned foods, bacteria in honey (infants)
Preformed toxin
Clostridium Botulinum
Preformed toxin, block of ACh release
Descending paralysis
Clostridium Botulinum
Treatment of Clostridium Botulinum
Antitoxin
Reheated meat, superantigen causes systemic toxicity
Vomiting, watery diarrhoea, lasts 24 hours
rapid onset
Clostridium Difficile
Aesculin positive with tumbling motility
Listeria Monocytogenes
Unpasteurized dairy, ‘cold enhancement’
Listeria Monocytogenes
Treatment of Listeria Monocytogenes
Ampicillin (+ ceftriaxone, cotrimoxazole)
E. Coli - ETEC
Enterotoxigenic E. coli
Traveller’s diarrhoea
E. Coli - EPEC
Enteropathogenic E. coli Infantile diarhoea (Paeds)
E. Coli - HUS (3 features)
Anaemia, thrombocytopaenia, renal failure
E. Coli - EIEC
Invasive dystentry
Enteroinvasive E. Coli