ALLMedicine™ Bacterial Gastroenteritis Center

Dec 31st, 2022 - Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a food-borne pathogen that causes severe bacterial gastroenteritis, with high rates of hospitalization and mortality. Lm is ubiquitous in soil, water and livestock, and can survive and proliferate at low temperatures...

Dec 16th, 2022 - Campylobacter spp. are one of the most common causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in Canada and worldwide. Fluoroquinolones are often used to treat complicated human campylobacteriosis and strains of Campylobacter spp. resistant to these drugs are...

Nov 10th, 2022 - Campylobacter spp. are Gram-negative microaerophilic and non-spore-forming bacteria that primarily live as commensal organisms in the gastrointestinal tract of many domestic and wild birds and mammals. These frequently provoke foodborne illness, b...

Sep 21st, 2022 - Acute gastroenteritis remains a common health problem among children worldwide with significant morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. Diarrheal diseases account for more than half-million deaths of children under 5 years old every year, most ...

Jul 12th, 2022 - Campylobacter coli is a typical food-borne pathogen worldwide known to cause bacterial gastroenteritis in humans. This study reported a draft whole genome sequence of C. coli isolate obtained from the caecal contents of poultry in Jinhua, China. W...

Sep 21st, 2022 - Acute gastroenteritis remains a common health problem among children worldwide with significant morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. Diarrheal diseases account for more than half-million deaths of children under 5 years old every year, most ...

Feb 14th, 2018 - This project will test the effectiveness of an integrative medicine approach in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Over the course of 18 months, we will recruit 85 participants with IBS in New York City. These participants will be randomized...

Apr 14th, 2016 - Admission to hospital with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Africa commonly has a case fatality of 10-30%. Importantly, children are usually admitted to hospital because they are severely ill rather than for malnutrition alone. Morta...

Nov 19th, 2014 - The gut microbiota is known to be integral to gastrointestinal health and disease. Psychological stress has been shown to significantly alter the gastrointestinal microbiota of rats, rhesus monkeys, and humans. These studies have consistently show...

May 9th, 2014 - Noroviruses are the cause of most acute, epidemic, non-bacterial gastroenteritis (24-hour intestinal flu) and Norwalk virus (NV) is the prototype strain of this group of viruses. Although NV was identified some 30 years ago, progress in understand...

Dec 28th, 2016 - Bacterial gastroenteritis is a common disorder with many causes. The disease can range from mild to severe and usually manifests with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal discomfort. Other causes of some of these symptoms include viral in...

Dec 28th, 2016 - Answer 4/5 Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the workup of bacterial gastroenteritis? Your peers chose: Absence of fecal leukocytes eliminates the possibility of enteroinvasive organisms 0% History of raw seafood ingestion or...

Dec 28th, 2016 - Bacterial gastroenteritis is a common disorder with many causes. The disease can range from mild to severe and usually manifests with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal discomfort. Other causes of some of these symptoms include viral in...

Dec 28th, 2016 - Bacterial gastroenteritis is a common disorder with many causes. The disease can range from mild to severe and usually manifests with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal discomfort. Other causes of some of these symptoms include viral in...

Nov 13th, 2013 - SAN DIEGO – A blood test for antibodies to vinculin, a protein involved in nerve cell migration, may allow objective diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome, a condition historically diagnosed clinically, after a thorough workup excludes other possi.