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Campylobacter infection

Última revisión: 12 Sep 2025
Última actualización: 24 Apr 2024

Resumen

Definición

ანამნეზი და გასინჯვა

ძირითადი დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • abdominal pain
  • diarrhea
სრული ტექსტი

სხვა დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • prodrome of headache, myalgias, chills, fever
  • vomiting
სრული ტექსტი

რისკფაქტორები

  • recent foreign travel
  • eating raw or undercooked meat (especially chicken)
  • exposure to poultry, cattle, sheep, or other farm animals
  • HIV infection
  • male sex
  • drinking untreated water
  • drinking unpasteurized milk
  • close contact with infected person
  • use of proton pump inhibitors or H2 antagonists
სრული ტექსტი

დიაგნოსტიკური კვლევები

1-ად შესაკვეთი გამოკვლევები

  • stool microscopy
  • stool culture
  • white blood cell count
სრული ტექსტი

გასათვალისწინებელი კვლევები

  • serum Campylobacter serology
  • blood culture
  • intestinal biopsy
  • fecal microscopy
სრული ტექსტი

მკურნალობის ალგორითმი

მწვავე

gastroenteritis

კონტრიბუტორები

ავტორები

Eli D. Ehrenpreis, MD, FACG, AGAF

Associate Director for Research

Internal Medicine Residency

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Park Ridge

IL

გაფრთხილება:

EDE is the CEO of E2Bio Life Sciences and E2Bio Consultants. EDE is the owner of patents related to the management of oral mucosal diseases, prevention of oral cancer, and treatment of anal pruritus.

მადლიერება

Dr Eli D. Ehrenpreis would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Gregory Juckett, Dr Kristin Furfari, and Professor Sarah O'Brien, the previous contributors to this topic.

გაფრთხილება:

GJ and KF declare that they have no competing interests. SOB is the author of some references cited in this topic.

რეცენზენტები

Justin T. Kupec, MD

Assistant Professor

Section of Digestive Diseases

Department of Medicine

West Virginia University

Morgantown

WV

გაფრთხილება:

JTK declares that he has no competing interests.

Stephen Morris-Jones, MBBS, MRCPath

Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences

London

UK

Disclosures

SMJ declares that he has no competing interests.

Michael Bennish, MD

Senior Associate

Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Bloomberg School of Public Health

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

MB declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

World Health Organization. Campylobacter fact sheet. 1 May 2020 [internet publication].Full text

Shane AL, Mody RK, Crump JA, et al. 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of infectious diarrhea. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Nov 29;65(12):e45-80.Full text  Abstract

Government of British Columbia. Laboratory. Nov 2023 [internet publication].Full text

Riddle MS, DuPont HL, Connor BA. ACG clinical guideline: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of acute diarrheal infections in adults. Am J Gastroenterol. 2016 May;111(5):602-22.Full text  Abstract

World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO). WGO practice guideline: acute diarrhea. 2012 [internet publication].Full text

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