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Enteric fever is a medical term encompassing two types of salmonellosis, which, specifically, are typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. [1] Enteric fever is a potentially life-threatening acute febrile systemic infection and is diagnosed by isolating a pathogen on culture.
Between 1808 and 1831, French physician François-Joseph-Victor Broussais gathered information from the autopsies of dead French soldiers. He described chronic gastritis as "Gastritide" and erroneously believed that gastritis was the cause of ascites, typhoid fever, and meningitis.
Gastroenteritis is usually caused by viruses; [ 4 ] however, gut bacteria, parasites, and fungi can also cause gastroenteritis. [ 2 ][ 4 ] In children, rotavirus is the most common cause of severe disease. [ 10 ] In adults, norovirus and Campylobacter are common causes. [ 11 ][ 12 ] Eating improperly prepared food, drinking contaminated water or close contact with a person who is infected can ...
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi. [2][3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. [4][5] Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. [4] This is commonly accompanied by weakness, abdominal pain, constipation, headaches ...
Travelers' diarrhea. Travelers' diarrhea (TD) is a stomach and intestinal infection. TD is defined as the passage of unformed stool (one or more by some definitions, three or more by others) while traveling. [2][3] It may be accompanied by abdominal cramps, nausea, fever, headache and bloating. [3] Occasionally bloody diarrhea may occur. [5]
Dysentery (UK: / ˈdɪsəntəri / DISS-ən-tər-ee, [7] US: / ˈdɪsəntɛri / DISS-ən-terr-ee), [8] historically known as the bloody flux, [9] is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. [1][10] Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. [2][6][11] Complications may include dehydration. [3] The cause of dysentery is usually the ...
Enteritis is inflammation of the small intestine. It is most commonly caused by food or drink contaminated with pathogenic microbes, [1] such as Serratia, but may have other causes such as NSAIDs, radiation therapy as well as autoimmune conditions like coeliac disease. Symptoms include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, dehydration, and fever ...
Campylobacteriosis. Campylobacteriosis is among the most common infections caused by a bacterium in humans, often as a foodborne illness. It is caused by the Campylobacter bacterium, [2] most commonly C. jejuni. It produces an inflammatory, sometimes bloody, diarrhea or dysentery syndrome, and usually cramps, fever and pain.