Tuesday 8 January 2013

Traveller's diarrhoea - E. Coli

Traveller's diarrhoea is often due to a mundane ubiquitous organism such as E.coli. Salmonellosis, Giardiasis, Amoebiasis may all cause significant diarrhoea also. Blood in the stool suggests a colitis which is likely to be viral or due to toxogenic E.coli.

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