Friday, January 1, 2010

Escherichia coli

1.UTI
a) community-acquired UTI
b) hospital acquired UTI

2.neonatal meningitis

3.pneumonia, sepsis, septicaemia, endotoxic shock

4.diarrhoea

a) Enterotoxigenic E coli- severe diarrhoea in infants and children and traveler's diarrhoea in adults

b) Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli- bloody diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis ( a disease similar to shigell dysentery), haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

c) Enteropathogenic E .coli- infantile diarrhoea

d) Enteroinvasive E.coli- disease identical to that caused by Shigella spp. but do not produce shiga toxin

e) Enteroaggregative E. coli- persistent diarrhoea in children

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