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GASTROENTERITIS IN
CHILDREN
PGI Aniban
Bacterial
Fecal-Oral Route
Associated with:
✓ Poverty
✓ Poor environmental
ETIOLOGY
VIRUSES:
✓ Rotavirus-
✓
FOOD SOURCES:
✓ Poultry
✓ Leafy vegetables
✓ Beef
✓ Vine-stalk vegetation
PATHOGENESIS
PREFORMED TOXINS:
✓ S. aureus
✓ Bacillus Species
CYTOXIC TOXINS:
✓ Shigella
SECRETORY TOXINS:
✓ S.aureus
✓ Cholera
✓ V.parahemolyticus
✓ E. coli
✓ C.difficile
✓ Salmonella
✓ E.coli
✓ Shigella
✓ C.jejuni
PATHOGENESIS
NON INFLAMMATORY
INFLAMMATORY
bacteria ✓ Fluid
• ✓ Protein
• Adherence or translocation- ✓ Cells (Rbc, Wbc)
bacteria
•
ROTAVIRUS BACTERIAL
ENTEROTOXINS
ETEC SHIGELLA