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Chapter 26 - Acute Infectious Diarrhea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
Kimberly A. Schertzer  and
Gus M. Garmel
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 169 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Thielman, N. M. and Guerrant, R. L. Clinical practice. Acute infectious diarrhea. N. Engl. J. Med. 2004; 350(1): 38–47.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Additional Readings

Gore, J. I. and Surawicz, C. Severe acute diarrhea. Gastroenterol. Clin. North Am. 2003; 32(4): 1249–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ilnyckyj, A. Clinical evaluation and management of acute infectious diarrhea in adults. Gastroenterol. Clin. North Am. 2001; 30(3): 599–609.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Talan, D., Moran, G. J., Newdow, M., et al. Emergency ID NET Study Group. Etiology of bloody diarrhea among patients presenting to United States emergency departments: prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other enteropathogens. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2001; 32(4): 573–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thielman, N. M. and Guerrant, R. L. Clinical practice. Acute infectious diarrhea. N. Engl. J. Med. 2004; 350(1): 38–47.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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