Gastrointestinal Disease Targets and Associations

Adenovirus

dsDNA virus

Norovirus

ssRNA virus positive sense

Rotavirus

dsRNA virus

Campylobacter

oxidase positive, seagull wing gram stain

Clostridium difficile

antibiotic associated pseudomembranous colitis

E. coli 0157

HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome)

Enterotoxigenic E. coli LT/ST (ETEC)

traveler’s diarrhea/Montezuma’s revenge

Salmonella spp.

motile, gram negative rod, =+=+

Shigella/Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC)

non-motile, gram negative rod, v+==

Vibrio/Vibrio parahaemolyticus

rice water stools, 0/129 susceptible

Yersinia enterocolitica

mimics appendicitis, ++==

Cryptosporidium spp.

acid fast coccidian resistant to chlorine

Entamoeba histolytica

pathogenic intestinal amoeba with cyst and troph stage

Giardia lamblia

pathogenic flagellate, beaver fever