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Lecture 17- GI infections Flashcards

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the gut is a tube- great way to get toxins into the body. name some potential toxins

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  • Chemical
  • Bacterial
  • Viruses
  • Protozoa
  • Nematodes (roundworms)
  • Cestodes (tapeworms)
  • Trematodes (flukes)
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Main defence against toxins:

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commensal bacteria

  • When we have an imbalance in commensal bacteria , ingesting other toxins are more likely to make us ill
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role of bacteria in the colon

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produce short chain fatty acids (SCFA)

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name 3 SCFA

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butyrate

acetate

propionate

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butyrate

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energy source for colonocytes, helps regulate gut environment

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  • Acetate-
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involved in cholesterol metabolism

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  • Propionate-
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helps regulate satiety

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what icnreases composition of gut microbiotia

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high fibre diet

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  • …………..disrupt diversity of gut microbiota (bad)
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Sweeteners

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  • Gluten free diet people without gluten sensitivity or coelicac disease-
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have a lower numbers of key species

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drug which causes increased GI infections

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  • proton pump inhibitors
  • antibiotics (meat) linked to obesity
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  • Probiotics
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– live bacteria and yeasts put in foodà probs die in stomach

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  • Prebiotics-
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essentially food for the microbiota (accessible carbs and fibreà seen as more useful

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GI defences

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  • Sight , smell, memory
  • Saliva (bacteriostatic secretions)
  • Gastric acid (acidic environment)
  • Small intestinalsecretions (bile)
  • Colonic mucus
  • Anaerobic environment (small bowel, colon)
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proximal gut microbiome

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  • Proximal gut is relatively sterile
    • Stomach is microaerophilic environment e.g. H.pylori (not anaerobic yet)
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how much bacteria in the colon

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  • 10^11 bacteria in the colon (anaerobic environment)
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  • More than ………of faecal matter is bacteria
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20%

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  • Benefits of gut microbiome
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  • Harmful bacterial cannot compete for nutrients
  • Microbiome produces antimicrobial substances
  • Helps to develop newborns immune system
  • Produces certain nutrients (VitK)
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  • Microbiome started when we
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come out the birth canal

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obesity and fut microbiota

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seems to be less diverse pop of bacteria

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  • Inflammatory bowel disease-
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less diversity

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  • Microbiome composition affects response
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to chemotherapy

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  • Microbiome competition affects
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insulin response to food

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Faecal microbiota transplant (FMT)

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Stool is a biologically active complex mixture of living organisms with therapeutic potential

  • Route of admin
    • NG/duodenal tube (unappealing)
    • Upper GI endoscopy
    • Colonoscopy
    • Transplant can be in caecum (allowed to move throughout colon)
      • Distributed throughout length of the colon
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which disease has FMT been used to treat

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  • E.g. pseudomembranous colitis has been treated by faecal enemas since 1985
  • C.diff
  • IBD
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Where do you get faeces from

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  • 10-25 year olds
  • Donors do not use (in past 3 months)
    • Antibiotics
    • Laxative
    • Diet pills
  • Do not have GI disease
  • Completely screen for diseases e.g. HIV, hepatitis
  • Transplant takes place within one hour
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bacteria infections in the gut

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  • Gram negative rods
    • Salmonella
    • Campylobacter
    • Shigella
    • Enterotoxigenic E.coli
  • Gram positive
    • Clostridium difficile
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Salmonella- gastroenteritis

  • Symptoms
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  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrheal (mostly non-blood)
  • Abdominal cramping
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salmonella transmission

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  • -ingesting food and water contaminated by salmonella bacteria (symptoms develop 48 hours later)
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MOA of salmonella

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  • Salmonella gain access to enterocyte via endocytosis
  • Move to submucosa where encounters macrophages
  • Macrophages transfer salmonella to RES where they multiply inside cells
  • Lymphoid hyperplasia
  • Re-enter gut from the liver
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prognosis of salmonella

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  • Prognosis – self limiting (may need oral resus)
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Campylobacter

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  • Bacteria is spiral shaped
    • Microaerophilic (do not ferment carbs)
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Campylobacter- gastroenteritis symptoms

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  • Fever
  • Abdominal cramping
  • Diarrhoea (can be bloody)
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Campylobacter- gastroenteritis transmission

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  • Eating poultry
  • Foaeco-oral route
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Campylobacter- gastroenteritis MOA

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  • Needs to multiply within host before symptoms appear (food infection- not poisoning)
    • Longer incubation period e.g. 1-7 days)
  • Releases a cytotoxin (similar to cholera)
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camplobacter prognosis

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  • Can last days to week- generally self limiting
  • Fluid/electrolyte resus
  • Consider Abx if bloody
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Shigella- gastroenteritis causes

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  • shigellosis- dysentery commonly affecting young children
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transmission of shigella

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  • Spread from infected stool
  • Person to person (sometimes flies)
  • Only need small dose to cause infection
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MOA of shigella

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  • Invades large intestine colonocytes, multiplies and invades neighbouring cells
  • Kills colonocytes and forms abscesses in the mucosa
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symptoms of shigella

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  • Blood diarrhoea with mucus and abdominal cramping
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prognosis of shigella

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Enterotoxigenic E.coli

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  • Commensal of the colon but can also be a pathogen
    • Flagella helps transport
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Enterotoxigenic E.coli -gastroenteritis transmission

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  • Faecal oral route by contaminated water
  • Common cause of travellers diarrhoea
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Enterotoxigenic E.coli -gastroenteritis MAO

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  • Adheres enterocytes in small intestine
  • Produces enterotoxins
  • These cause hypersecretion of chloride
  • Water leaves cells in the gut lumen
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different strains of e.coli cause different

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symptoms and need different treatment

46
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gram negative bacteria which cause bloody diarrhoea

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shigell, campylobacter

(colon involvement)

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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) potential

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shigell and campylobacter

  • anaemia
  • thrombocytopenia
  • AKI
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duration of gram engative infections shrotest to longest

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ETEC, salmonella (days), shigella (week), campylobacter (weeks)

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which is the main gram positive bacteria which causes gastroenteritis

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clostridium difficile

50
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clostridium difficile

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  • Gram positive
  • anaerobic
  • spore forming bacillus
  • minor component of GI tract but can be transferred via faecal oral route
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why is C.diff common in hospitals

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spore very difficult to get rid of from environment e.g. hospital

up to 20% of hospitalised pts become colonised with C.difficile

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MOA of C.diff

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  • Following antibiotic therapy C difficile can colonise gut (imbalance in microbiota and release toxins A and B
    • A- enterotoxin results in excessive secretion and inflammation
    • B- cytotoxin
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cause of C.diff

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Most antibiotics can precipitate C.difficile proliferation- esp broad spectrum.

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symptoms of c.diff

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  • Asymptomatic – most people
  • Varying degrees of diarrhoea (mild to terrible, rarely bloody)
  • Abdominal cramping
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rare complications of C,diff

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  • Pseudomembranous colitis
  • Toxic megacolon (worst case scenario)- surgery
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  • Pseudomembranous colitis
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  • Inflammatory condition
  • Elevated yellow plaques which join to form a pseudomembrane
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megacolon

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needs surgery

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treatment of C.diff

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Treatment

  • Remove offending antibiotic
  • Fluid resus
  • Metronidazole/vancomycin
  • Probiotics
59
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viruses which can cause gastroenteritis

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rotavirus

noravirus

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Parasites which cause gastroenteritis

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  • Cryptosporidium
  • Giardia
  • Entamoeba
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Viral gastroenteritis- Rotavirus characteristics

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  • Common in under 5s
  • The virus
    • dsRNA
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  • transmission of rotavirus
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  • faecal oral route (only small dose required)
  • adults rarely affected (immunity lasts into adulthood)
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symptoms of rotavirus

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  • fever and vomiting first
  • diarrhoea follows
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diarrhea in rotavirus

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  • chloride secretion
    • creates gradient for movement of Na into lumen
      • water moves by osmosis
      • diarrhoea
  • SGLT 1 disruption
    • Reduced movement of Na/glucose into enterocyte
    • Higher osmotic load in gut
    • Water moves by osmosis
  • Reduce brush border enzyme function- malabsorption
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  • Treatment of rotavirus
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Managing dehydration

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Viral gastroenteritis- Norovirus can affect

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  • Can affect any age – huge number of strains- don’t develop immunity
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68
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norovrius

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  • RNA virus
  • Only requires small dose-highly contagious
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  • norovirus Transmission
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  • Person to person
  • Resistant to cleaning
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  • MOA norovirus
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  • Incubation 1-2 days
  • Symptoms last 1-3 days
  • Affecting small intestine and damages microvilli (brish border enzyme disruption)
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  • Symptoms norovirus
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  • Vomiting
    • Delayed gastric emptying
  • Watery diarrhoea
    • Anion secretion- movement of water into gut
  • Fever
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  • Treatment of norovirus
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  • Oral rehydration therapy
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  • Protozoal infects the intestinal tract
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  • Cryptosporidium- sporozoan
    • Non motile
  • Giardia lamblia- flagellate
    • Motile - flagella
  • Entamoeba- amoeba
    • Motile- move by extending cytoplasmic projections
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Cryptosporidium is a

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sporozoan- protozoa

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transmission of cryptosporidium

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  • Faecal oral route but can also survive and spread via bodies of water
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who does Cryptosporidium effect

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MOA of cryptosporidium

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MOA

  • Disease is caused by ingestion of oocysts (cyst containing parasitic)
    • Reproduces inside the epithelial cells of the distal small intestine
    • Oocysts are excreted in faces and continue cycle
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Symptoms of cryptosporidium

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  • Watery diarrhoea (S.intestine)
    • Malabsorption (brush border enzymes affected)
    • Chloride secretion
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Treatment of cryptosporidium

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  • Fluids
  • Occasionally need an anti-parasitic treatment if pt immunocompromised e.g. HIV
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giardia is a

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flagellate

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symptoms of giardia

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  • Most infections asymptomatic (symptoms in children)
  • If symptomatic (appear after 10+ days incubation period)
    • Diarrhoea
    • Abdominal cramping
    • Can last 6 weeks
  • Common cause of persistent diarrhoea
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transmission of giardia

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  • Faecal oral route with water supplies often affected
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  • MOA of giardia
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Life cycle in 2 stages

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  • Treatment of giardia
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Antibiotics and fluid rehydration therapy (lactase deficiency common after infection- lactose intolerance)

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entamoeba has a higher prevalence in

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developing coutnries

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entamoeba symptom

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  • Most cases are asymptomatic (80%)
    • Diarrhoea
    • Liver abscesses (rare)
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transmission of entamoeba

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  • Transmission
    • Faecal oral route
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MOA of entemoeba

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  • MOA
    • Infection following ingestion of cysts
    • Excystation occurs in colon where trophozoites invade mucosa
      • Bloody diarrhoea and inflammatory changes occur (similar to IBD)
      • Infection can spread to liver- abscesses
    • Cysts then pass out with faeces- infect others
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treatment of entamoeba

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  • Treatment
    • Anti-protozoal= metronidazole
    • Severe colitis/toxic megacolon= surgery
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travellers diarhhoea

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