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4 . 2013

Differential diagnosis of acute diarrhea

Abstract

In the article they have listed the criteria of the differential diagnosis between acute intestinal infections and surgical, gynecological and therapeutic diseases.

There are about 30 forms of acute intestinal infections. The infective agents of acute intestinal infections can be bacteria, virus or other infective agents. In the in the ethological structure of this diseases today, viruses are more common. Among the acute intestinal infections, the practicing doctor must be able to diagnose dysentery and cholera in time. Among acute bacterial infections food poising and salmonella are more common, dysentery is rare. As an exception from other diseases, dysentery requires anti-epidemiological approach. The differential diagnosis of acute intestinal infections and the therapeutic, surgical and gynecological diseases requires a lot of responsibility. The article has been illustrated table form of the main diagnostic criteria.

Keywords:acute intestinal infections, differential diagnostics, food toxic infection, dysentery, salmonellosis

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CHIEF EDITOR
CHIEF EDITOR
Aleksandr V. Gorelov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Head of Infection Diseases and Epidemiology Department of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Clinical Medicine named after N.A. Semashko ofRussian University of Medicine, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Childhood Diseases, Clinical Institute of Children's Health named after N.F. Filatov, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director for Research, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor (Moscow, Russian Federation)
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