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Types of bacterial gastroenteritis

Last edited 30 Jun 2018

types of bacterial gastroenteritis

	secretory gastroenteritis	inflammatory gastroenteritis	invasive gastroenteritis
location	proximal small intestine	colon	distal small intestine
type of illness	watery diarrhoea	dysentry	enteric fever
stool examination	no fecal leukocytes	fecal polymorphonuclear leukocytes	fecal mononuclear leukocytes (if patient has diarrhea)
mechanism	enterotoxin or bacterial adherence/invasion causes a shift in water and electrolyte excretion/adsorption	bacterial invasion or cytotoxins cause mucosal damage that leads to inflammation	bacteria penetrate the mucosa and invade the reticuloendothelial system
classic pathogens	Vibrio cholera Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Clostridium perfringens Bacillus cereus Staphylococcus aureus	Shigella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), Salmonella (not Salmonella Typhi/Paratyphi) Vibrio parahaemolyticus Clostridium difficile Campylobacter	Salmonella Typhi/Paratyphi Yersinia enterocolitica

Reference:

(1) Humphries RM, Linscott AJ. Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial gastroenteritis. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2015 ;28(1):3-31.

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