Exam 34: Gastrointestinal Infections and Food Poisoning

All of the following organisms can cause enterotoxin-mediated diarrhea except:

What diarrheal illness occurs when organisms invade through the bowel wall, cause bacteremia, and also cause a mesenteric lymphadenitis that may be confused with appendicitis?

All of these patient history questions will help focus the search for the pathogen except:

What common organism invades the full thickness of the bowel with lymphatic spread?

What types of stools are characteristic of someone who has cholera?

What intestinal parasite is able to leave the intestines and cause metastatic diseases, especially liver abscesses?

What type of diarrheal illness produces fever, leukocytosis in peripheral blood, and fecal leukocytes?

What is the most commonly identified intestinal parasite in the United States?

What virus is the leading cause of diarrhea in children younger than age 5?

What is the most common cause of travelers' diarrhea?

What diarrheal pathogen can produce a disease that may lead to hemolytic-uremic syndrome (hemolytic anemia, low platelet count, and kidney failure)?

All the following organisms invade the bowel mucosal surface to produce diarrhea except:

What is the most important cause of iatrogenic diarrhea in adults?