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GI Conditions in Febrile Returning Traveler

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GI Conditions in Febrile Returning Traveler, Gastrointestinal Disease in Returning Traveler

  1. See Traveler's Diarrhea
  2. See Food-borne Diarrheal Infection
  3. See Water-borne Diarrheal Infection
  4. Consider Malaria if concurrent systemic symptoms
  5. Watery Diarrhea
    1. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
    2. Cryptosporidiosis
    3. Giardiasis
    4. Cholera
    5. Rotavirus
  6. Dysentery syndromes (bloody Diarrhea, high fever)
    1. Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
    2. Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
    3. Shigella (also causes Seizures)
    4. Salmonella
    5. Campylobacter
    6. Yersinia
    7. Amebic colitis
    8. Cyclosporiasis
    9. Disseminated Strongyloides
  1. Fasciola hepatic (common liver fluke)
  2. Visceral Larva Migrans
  3. Migrating Ascaris lumbricoides (Giant roundworm)
  • References
  1. Walker (2001) HP Primary Care Medicine Lecture
  2. Suh (1999) Med Clin North Am 83(4):997-1017 [PubMed]