GI Flashcards
What GI infection would have both leukocytes and red blood cells in a stool sample?
Shigella
What infection would show “rose spots”?
Typhoid fever
What GI infection normally has “rice water stools”, which also includes voluminous diarrhea?
Cholera
What is the normal treatment for Giardiasis?
Metronidazole
Typhoid fever is caused by bacteria?
Salmonella
What is the normal treatment for Shigella?
Ciprofloxin
What is the most common virus that causes gastroenteritis worldwide?
Rotavirus
What is the normal treatment for Typhoid fever?
Ciprofloxin
Which one causes symptomatic Amebiasis?
– E dispar
– E moshkovskii
– E histolytica
E histolytica
How many days is a patient hospitalized, before c. diff can be the major cause of diarrhea?
3 days
What is the normal treatment for c. diff?
Metronidazole
Who is at risk for developing c. diff?
- Hospitalized or recently hospitalized patients
- Elderly or debilitated patients
- Persons who have received
- Multiple antibiotics or prolonged antibiotic therapy
- Proton pump inhibitor therapy
- Enteral tube feeding
- Chemotherapy
- Persons with inflammatory bowel disease
Does Campylobacter jejuni or Campylobacter fetus cause diarrhea disease?
Campylobacter jejuni,
what is the normal treatment for Campylobacter?
ciprofloxacin (decreases duration)
Bacillus Cereus - heat stable; produces what symptom?
vomiting
