GIT Infections Quick Facts

Question 1

Reheated fried rice

Answer 1

Bacillus cerus

Question 2

Diarrhea over a day after eating food

Answer 2

E. coli. No preformed toxin so not a fast onset

Question 3

Eat infected poultry, two days later you’re sick

Answer 3

Salmonella. Campylobacter is also chicken but diff onset

Question 4

Curved motile bacteria. Increases adenylyl cyclase

Answer 4

V. cholera

Question 5

Unpasteurized milk

Answer 5

Mycobacterium bovis

Question 6

Ulcerated peyers patches and systemic and progressive illness

Answer 6

Typhoid fever- salmonella typhi

Question 7

Most common cause of viral gastroenteritis in kids and is self-limited to 1 week

Answer 7

Rotavirus

Question 8

Diarrhea with blood and mucus in stool

Answer 8

Either shigella dysenteriae or entamoeba histolytica

Question 9

Diarrhea with blood and mucus in stool + liver abscess

Answer 9

Entamoeba histolytica - it likes veins like IVC and portal vein

Question 10

GIT infections that stain acid fast = Ziehl-Neelsen stain

Answer 10

Cryptosporidium parvum and hominis, and cyclospora cayetanesis