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dysentery
Etiology:
- gastrointestinal infection
- viral enteritis
- shigellosis
- enterohemorrhagic E. coli (Shiga toxin producing E. coli) is the most common cause of bloody diarrhea in the U.S.
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- amebiasis
Clinical manifestations:
- severe & bloody diarrhea
- mucous in feces
- tenesmus
- abdominal pain
- fever
Laboratory:
- shiga toxin gene, immunoassay for shiga toxin
- as indicated
- stool culture (Shigellosis)
- nucleic acid amplification test
- stool microscopy (amebiasis)
Specific
shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)
General
enterocolitis
infectious diarrhea; infectious colitis
bloody diarrhea; inflammatory diarrhea
References
- Wikipedia: Dysentery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysentery
- World Health Organization (WHO
Dysentery
http://www.who.int/topics/dysentery/en/