Diarrheal diseases (guide)

Diarrhea can be characterized as frequent passing of loose, loose stools. This is a symptom with considerable subjective coloring. Diarrhea is a common symptom of various disorders of the digestive system. Diarrheal diseases are the cause of up to 20 million deaths per year in the world, and young children are most at risk.

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Diarrheal diseases by etiology:

• Viral gastroenteritis (viral diarrheal diseases)
  • Rotavirus enteritis
  • Adenoviral enteritis
• Bacterial gastroenteritis (bacterial diarrheal diseases)
  • Campylobacter enteritis (causing agent: Campylobacter jejuni)
  • Salmonella enteritis (causing agent: Salmonella enteritidis, S. typhimurium)
  • Typhoid fever (causing agent: Salmonella typhi) - rather Constipation!
  • Paratyphoid (causing agent: Salmonella paratyphi)
  • Shigelosis (causing agent: Shigella dysenteriae, flexneri, boydii, sonnei)
  • Cholera (causing agent: Vibrio cholerae)
  • Infection caused by Escherichia coli
• Gastrointestinal parasitosis
  • protozoa: Toxoplasmosis (causing agent: Toxoplasma gondii), Toxocarosis (Toxocara canis / cati), Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia), Amebosis (Entamoeba histolytica), Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium parvum)
  • nematodes: Ascariasis (caused by: Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm), Trichuriosis (Trichuris trichiura or human tapeworm), Trichinella spiralis, Enterobiosis (Enterobius vermicularis), Strongyloides stercoralis, Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanes, Dracunculus medinensis,...
  • cestodes: Taeniosis (originators: Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, or defenseless tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum, (Hymenolepis nana, or baby tapeworm), Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis...
• Enterotoxicoses – caused by enterotoxins.
• Drug-induced diarrhea
  • Pseudomembranous enterocolitis

Other articles related to diarrheal diseases:

• Diarrhea (pediatrics)
• Differential diagnosis of diarrheal diseases
• Therapy of diarrheal diseases
• Antidiarrheal