Pneumonia

GI INFECTIONSThis child shows a condition of the skin known as _____ (aka a loss of skin _____). What caused this in the patient?

Tenting from loss of skin turgor. This is due to dehydration (from diarrhea)2Ah, The Poison Doughnut aka _______ which is what type of toxin and causes what type of diarrhea disease? Whats the incubation and the duration of the disease? What kinda diarrhea does it usually cause?

Biggest health risk? Gimme a few clinical ways we define this

Cholera toxin. A-B toxin. Enterotoxin e. coli. Watery diarrhea. Incubation 1-15 days. Disease 1-5 days.

Dehydration is the big risk: Severe Dehydration Loss of more than 10% body weight, Dry mucous membranes, sunken eyesWasherwomans hands, Mental dullness

3A gram neg bug that can cause disease inside and outside of the enteric tract caused this.

Which is it, what gnarly toxin does it produce and what kinda diarrhea does that toxin result in?

is the infectious dose low or high in this strain?

That toxin inhibits ________ in the host cellNormalDay 7 after onset

Day 7 after onset in E.coli O157 bloody diarrhea with hemolysis, thrombocytopenia. Shiga toxin Low infectious dose