gastroenteritis - Answers acute ... is 2nd only to the common cold in frequency in the US, and causes
16% of all illnesses
gastroenteritis - Answers .... is usually seen in 1 to 2 episodes of disease/per child per year and results in
1.8 million hospitalizations annually and a cost of $23 billion/year (direct and indirect coss)
deaths - Answers worldwide estimates are that there are 5 billion cases of viral gastroenteritis per year
and result in greater than 2.5 million childhood ... annually
inflammatory - Answers symptoms of ...diarrhea include:
abdominal pain, tenesmus, fever,
frequent small volume stool that is blood-stained and has mucous
the site of infection is in the distal small intestine and colon
and mechanism is due to invasion of enterocytes leading to cell death
abdominal pain and fever - Answers ... are two general symptoms of inflammatory diarrhea
frequent small volume stools that are blood-stained and have mucus - Answers the stools of a person
with inflammatory diarrhea will be
distal small intestine and colon - Answers the site of infection that causes inflammatory diarrhea is ....
invasion of enterocytes leading to cell death - Answers the mechanism that causes inflammatory disease
is due to .... caused by the virus
non-inflammatory - Answers in ... diarrhea the patient experiences
nausea, vomitting, abdominal pain and fever are less prominent
has voluminous watery stools
site of infection is in the proximal small intestine
and the mechanism of infection is osmotic or secretory in nature
nausea, vomiting - Answers in a patient with non-inflammatory diarrea they experience .... and
abdominal pain and fever are less prominent symptoms
voluminous watery - Answers a patient with non-inflammatory diarrhea has ... stools
proximal small intestine - Answers the site of infection for a patient with non-inflammatory diarrhea is in
the ...
, osmotic or secretory - Answers the mechanism of action in non-inflammatory diarrhea is ....
non-inflammatory - Answers rotavirus, adenovirus (40/41), astrovirus, calicivirus, small round
structureless virus, coronavirus, and Norwalk Agent all cause ... diarrhea
viruses - Answers no .... cause inflammatory diarrhea
non-inflammatory - Answers entertoxigenic Ecoli, Enteropathogenic Ecoli, Bacillus cereus, Vibrio colerae,
Campylobacter spp, Salmonella spp, and Clostridium perfingens are all bacteria that cause ... diarrhea
inflammatory - Answers Enteroinvasive Ecoli, Enterohemorrhagic Ecoli, Enteroaggregative Ecoli,
Aeromonas hydrophilia, Camylobacter spp, Salmonella spp, Yersinia enterocolitica, Clostridium difficile,
and Shigella spp, are bacterial species that cause .... diarrhea
non-inflammatory and inflammatory - Answers both Camylobacter spp and Salmonella spp are bacteria
that cause ...diarrhea
non-inflammatory - Answers Giardia intestinalis (lamblia), Cryptosporidium parvum, and Blastocystis
hominis are all protozoa that cause ... diarrhea
inflammatory - Answers Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoa that causes ... diarrhea
gastroenteritis - Answers the 3 most common viral agents that cause ... include
1. rotavirus
2. enteric adenoviruses (40/41)
3. Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses aka Norovirus
Noroviruses - Answers ... are small round structured gastroenteritis viruses in the Calicivirus family that
are SS RNA, and a major cause of pediatric diarrhea and adult food/H20 borne epidemics
specific - Answers ... viral diagnosis is not needed in most clinical situations
severe disease, immune compromise, or outbreak - Answers the 3 main reasons why a specific viral
diagnosis may be helpful would be ....
specific - Answers the 3 main reasons why a ... viral diagnosis may be helpful would be
1. severe disease
2. immune compromise
3. outbreak-- requiring a public health response
rotavirus - Answers .... is more associated with morbidity and mortality than other viral etiolgoies of
gastroenteritis because it causes more severe dehydration