... > Chapter 122. Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFoodPoisoning Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFood Poisoning: Introduction Ranging from mild annoyances ... Examples of Pathogens Involved Noninflamma Proximal small Watery No fecal leukocytes; Vibrio cholerae, Chapter 122. Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFoodPoisoning ... indirect factors in a far greater burden of disease. The wide range of clinical manifestations of acute gastrointestinal illnesses is matched by the wide variety of infectious agents involved, including...
... Alternatively, enterotoxigenic strains of E. coli may produce heat-stable enterotoxin (ST), one form of which causes diarrhea by activation of guanylate cyclase and elevation of intracellular cyclic GMP. ... activation of adenylate cyclase. The end result is an increase of cyclic AMP in the intestinal mucosa, which increases Cl– secretion and decreases Na+ absorption, leading to loss of fluid ... After the binding of holotoxin, a fragment of the A subunit is translocated across the eukaryotic cell membrane into the cytoplasm, where it catalyzes the ADP-ribosylation of a GTP-binding protein...
... shedding of organisms, while patients Approach to the Patient: Infectious Diarrhea or BacterialFood Poisoning The approach to the patient with possible infectious diarrhea or bacterial food poisoning ... than is constructing a list of recently eaten foods. If a common source seems likely, specific foods can be investigated. See text for a discussion of bacterialfood poisoning. 9. Current antibiotic ... infectious diarrhea or bacterialfood poisoning. Key to superscripts: 1. Diarrhea lasting >2 weeks is generally defined as chronic; in such cases, many of the causes of acute diarrhea are...
... glass slide, addition of a drop of methylene blue, and examination of the wet mount) can suggest inflammatory disease in patients with diarrhea, although the predictive value of this test is still ... observed. Table 122-2 Post-Diarrhea Complications of Acute Infectious Chapter 122. Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFoodPoisoning (Part 5) History The answers to questions ... After the severity of illness is assessed, the clinician must distinguish between inflammatory and noninflammatory disease. Using the history and epidemiologic features of the case as guides,...
... Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFoodPoisoning (Part 6) Table 122-3 Epidemiology of Traveler's Diarrhea Etiologic Agent Approximate Percentage of Cases Comments Enterotoxigenic ... areas; percentage of cases ranges from 15% in Asia to 50% in Latin America Enteroaggregative E. coli 20–35 Emerging enteric pathogen of worldwide distribution One-third of elderly patients ... colonic flora and allowing the multiplication of C. difficile (Chap. 123). Unknown 20 Illness improves with antibacterial therapy, implicating bacterial diarrhea Source: After Dupont....
... the ingestion of specific foods and the time of onset of the diarrhea after a meal can provide clues to the bacterial cause of the illness. Potential causes of bacterialfoodpoisoning are ... incidence of Salmonella infections is highest among those <1 year of age, while the attack rate for Shigella infections is greatest among those 6 months to 4 years of age. Bacterial FoodPoisoning ... Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and BacterialFoodPoisoning (Part 7) Age Most of the morbidity and mortality from enteric pathogens involves children <5 years of age. Breast-fed infants are...
... evaluation of dehydration severity. Empirical regimens for the treatment of traveler's diarrhea are listed in Table 122-5. Not all foodpoisoning has a bacterial cause. Nonbacterial agents of ... colonies of sorbitol nonfermenters (white colonies) on sorbitol MacConkey plates. Fresh stools should be examined for amebic cysts and trophozoites Infectious Diarrhea or BacterialFood Poisoning: ... short-incubation foodpoisoning include capsaicin, which is found in hot peppers, and a variety of toxins found in fish and shellfish (Chap. 391). Laboratory Evaluation Many cases of noninflammatory...
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... alternative ways of construing reality, and interpersonal metaphor, which offer alternative possibilities of expressing modal meanings (metaphors of modality), or exchanging commands (metaphors of mood). ... Realization of Social Context( Source: Halliday& Martin 1993:25) 3 Levels of Context The interpretation of social context includes two levels of communication: genre (context of culture) ... phenomenon that a non- process is taken as a process.6.1 Taking temporal relation as processAn investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic discourse26 purposes of...
... deletion ofOF 26II.4. Concluding remark 26CHAPTER III: THE TRANSLATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE TERMS OF NON- EQUIVALENCE GROUP 28III.1. The source of non- equivalence problem in the translation of ... word is undeniable, 22 TABLE OF CONTENTSPART A: INTRODUCTION 11. Rationale 12. Scope of the study 23. Aims of the study 24. Methods of the study 25. Design of the study 3PART B: DEVELOPMENT ... of terminology 11I.5. Chapter conclusion 13CHAPTER II: THE TRANSLATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE TERMS OF EQUIVALENCE GROUP 14II.1. An overview of equivalence relationships in the translation of...
... basis of evidence he has. In (27), there is a clash of non- observance of the maxim of Quantity and Quality. A great number of similar cases are available in Vietnamese. These patterns of responses ... 5.1. Frequencies of Response Types to Questions by Native speakers of English and Native Speakers of VietnameseIn the situations, we deal with response patterns between someone of a high status ... some typesof question responses from the set of English Native Speakers in English. Second, the Vietnamese translated version of the DCT questionnaire was used to collect some typesof question...
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