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What does it mean if diarrhea < 24 hours after source?

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means there is a preformed toxin

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What 2 bugs will cause a diarrhea within 6 hours?

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  • staph aureus

- B. cereus

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What 2 bugs will cause a diarrhea within 6-24 hours?

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  • C. perfringens

- B. cereus

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What 3 organisms will cause vomiting within 1-6 hours?

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  • staph aureus
  • B cereus
  • norwalk virus
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What is the dominant symptom in things with a preformed toxin?

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vomiting

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What are our defenses against GI infections?

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  • gastric acid secretion
  • gastric pH < 4
  • intact small bowel motility
  • intestinal microflora
  • secretion IgA and serum IgG
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What is enteroadherence?

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attachment and effacing adherence

pili serve as antigen which allows colonization

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What is mech of enterotoxin?

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can be pre-formed or not

toxin-receptor interaction increases intracellular signaling [cAMP, cGMP, Ca, etc]

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What is acute bacterial dysentery?

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diarrhea that is mucopurulent, bloody and accompanied by ab pain, fever, and leukocytosis
= enteroinvasive mech

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What are 5 causes of acute bacterial dysentery?

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  • salmonella
  • shigella
  • campylobacter
  • yersinia
  • clostridium perfringens
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What is cytotoxic mech of bacterial infection?

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  • inhibits protein synthesis and triggers inflammatory cascade
  • disrupts tight junctions and mitochondria
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What is mucosal invasion mech of bacterial infection?

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main mech for colon –> invade enterocyte and multiply intracellularly and get cell death

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What are 2 mechs of shigella infection?

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  1. adherence to mucosal surface w/ release of toxin

2. invasion of epithelial lining

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What part of GI does shigella?

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usulaly infects colon w/ some terminal ileum

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What is classic presentation of shigella?

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watery diarrhea then entero-invasion –> multiple small volume bloody mucoid stool

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Can shigella cause bacteremia?

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rarely

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What is the action of vibrio cholera’s two enterotoxin subunits?

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B unit = Binds enterocytes usually in proximal small bowel

A unit = Activates intracellular adenylate cyclase –> stimulate intestinal secretion

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What is presentation of vibrio cholera?

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severe watery diarrhea = rice water diarrhea; can present with shock

no inflammatory cells in stool

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What part of GI does cholera infect?

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upper small intestine; colon relatively unaffected

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What are the 2 toxins of enterotoxigenic E coli?

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heat labile toxin = similar to cholera toxin; activates adenylate cyclase

heat stable = activates guanylate cyclase

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What is usually the source of enterotoxic e coli?

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contaminated food and beverages

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What is clinical presentation of enterotoxigenic e coli?

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most common cause of travelers diarrhea

non-invasive, watery non-bloody non-purulent diarrhea; can have variable volume loss

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What is mech of EColi 01:H157?

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epidemic E coli; usual route of infection is infected meat

adheres to distal small bowel with shiga-like toxin that causes mucosal destruction and allows toxin to enter circulation

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What part of GI does E Coli 01:H157 infect?

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distal small bowel

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What is the major illness that enterotoxigenic E coli 01:H157 causes?
hemolytic uremic syndrome = due to endothelial cell injury have localized prothrombic state in glomeruli; hemolysis of RBCs due to shearing in damaged vessels
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What kind of food is usually the source of staph aureus?
food with egg products or cream that is not adequately refrigerated
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What is typical presentation of staph aureus infection?
within 4-8 hours have upper GI symptoms; N/V followed by watery diarrhea and resolved in 24 hours
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What is source of clostridium perfringens infection?
inadequately heated meat
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What is typical presentation of clostridium perfringens?
diarrhea within 8-24 hours that resolves spontaneously
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What is pathogenesis of C Diff?
- may colonize colon in normal flora; when normal colonic flora is disturbed ie following antibiotic use it becomes pathogenic releases toxins A and B --> destroy epithelium --> get pseudomembrane of dead leukocytes and mucosal cells
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What are the actions of CDiffs two toxins?
toxin A = initiates inflammatory process but is non-essential for infection toxin B = cytotoxic and causes cellular damage and destruction
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What are risk factors for c diff infection?
antibiotic use - particularly clindamycin hospital stay increased age PPI use
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What is clinical presentation of C Diff infection?
profuse watery non-bloody stools with crampy abdomen | leukocytes [WBC > 20k] in stool
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What are two potential complications of C Diff?
toxic megacolon toxic colitis associated with NAP1 strain = more severe
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How do you diagnose CDiff?
C Diff toxin in stool or sigmoidoscopy to show pseudomembranes
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What are the 5 Fs of salmonella?
fingers, food, feces, flies, fomites
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What part of GI is usually infected by salmonella?
terminal ileum
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What is invasive non-typhoid salmenollosis?
usually in terminal ileum; maybe colon salmonella penetrates lamina propria then lymphatics and bloodstream --> can lead to septic arthritis, meningitis, endocarditis, osteomyelitis = salmonella bacteremia
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What are some conditison predisposing to salmonella infection?
- sickle cell - lymphoma/leukemia - AIDS - aschlorhydria --> PPI - UC - schitosomiasis
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What is the presentation of salmonella gastroenteritis?
after 6-48 hrs have N/V then ab cramps and bloody diarrhea that may last days and be accompanied by fever
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What happens in typhoid fever?
salmonella typhi invades small bowel mucosa, lamina propria, lymphatics, blood stream have minimal intestinal symptoms early on --> diarrhea, bleeding, perforation high fever, headache, toxemia, mental status change
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Where do you get pain in typhoid?
RLQ b/c organisms localize in peyers patches of ileum
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What is source of campylobacter?
farm animals; chickens; raw milk + eggs
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What is clinical presentation of campylobacter?
invades mucosa; asymptomatic or watery diarrhea or dysentery 1-3 days after ingestion stool has fecal leukocytes / obvious blood
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How do you diagnose campylobacter?
stool culture
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What can yersinia mimi?
appendicitis or crohns ileitis = RLQ pain of acute onset
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What is source of yersinia?
food or pets
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What is clinical presentation of yersinia?
mucosal invasion --> diarrhea, RLQ pain
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What 6 bugs produce blood diarrhea?
- shigella - salmonella - entamobea - e coli - c diff - yersinia
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What 4 bugs produce watery diarrhea?
- viruses - vibrio - giardia - enterotoxigenic E Coli
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What is most comon cause of community acquire gastroenteritis?
rotavirus
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What is transmission of rotavirus?
fecal-oral, respiratory secretions, or contaminated surfaces
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What kind of virus is rotavirus?
double stranded RNA virus
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What is mechanism of rotavirus
destruction of mature enterocytes in proximal small intestine --> secretory diarrhea; decreased brush border enzymes
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What is clinical presentation of rotavirus?
watery diarrhea without inflammatory cells | lasts 3-7 days
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What are our defences against rotavirus?
virus specific but short lived IgA --> Ab increases with subsequent infection
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What type of virus is norovirus?
single stranded RNA
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What is most common cause of community acquired infectious diarrhea in adults?
norovirus
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What makes norovirus so infectious?
viral shedding can occur during asymptomatic and in post-symptomatic state
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What is pathogenesis of norovirus infection?
non invasive causes reversible lesions in upper jejunum --> blunting villi, lose brush border enzymes --> osmotic loose watery diarrhea lasts 12-60 hours
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Who classically gets giardia?
IgA deficient patients
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Where does giardia infect?
mucosa of duodenum and jejunum --> upper GI symptoms more common than diarrhea
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What is mech of giardia infection?
not enteroinvasive = adheres to small bowel and destroys tight junctions watery diarrhea= non-bloody, no mucous
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What is clinical presentation of entameoba histolytica?
varies from asymptomatic to severe dysentery with bloody stools; crampy abdominal pain; can cause ameobic liver abscess
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What is pathogenesis of entameoba histolytica?
ingest cyst --> beomce trophozoites in bowel --> phagocytose RBCs and cause ulcers throughout large intestine
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What do you see on endoscopy with entameoba histolytics?
punched out ulcers = mimic UC | dense inflammatory granulomas = ameoboma
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How do you diagnose entameoba?
microscopic examination of fresh stool specimen for trohpozoites
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What is pathogenesis of cryptosporidium infection?
sprozoites attach to enterocytes along their microvilli --> watery/profuse diarrhea diagnose by stool assya

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