| Theme | Digestive Diseases Related to Bacteria -- To Understand Etiology and Control of Clinicopathological Conditions | |
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| Title | Infectious Enterocolitis | |
| Publish Date | 2007/08 | |
| Author | Ichiro Hirata | Department of Gastroenterology, Fujita Health University, School of Medicine |
| [ Summary ] | An outline of general factors concerning the pathogenesis, syndrome, diagnosis, and treatment of bacterial enterocolitis is given. In addition, entero-pathogenic Escherichia coli enterocolitis (especially O-157 enterocolitis), Salmonellosis, Yersinia enterocolitis, Campylobacter enterocolitis, pseudomembranous colitis, intestinal tuberculosis are taken up among various bacterial enterocolitis and the itemized matters of the pathogenesis, syndrome, diagnosis and treatment of these disease are discussed. Entero-pathogenic Escherichia coli enterocolitis, Salmonellosis, Yersinia enterocolitis and Campylobacter enterocolitis are acute enteritis to take acute course as, but are important on the point to comparatively well encounter in daily medical care. Because cessation of these conditions two or three weeks after onset, these acute enterocolitis are termed acute self-limited colitis in Europe and America. In addition, pseudomembranous colitis is important at a point to be seen to an elderly patients and a grave disease patient. Intestinal tuberculosis is chronic enterocolitis to follow chronic course. In late years intestinal tuberculosis is regarded as an important as a revival infectious disease. |
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