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PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 2   Clinical Syndromes: Community-Acquired Infections

128 Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and Bacterial Food Poisoning
Regina C. LaRocque / Edward T. Ryan / Stephen B. Calderwood

Figure 128-1  Clinical algorithm for the approach to patients with community-acquired infectious diarrhea or bacterial food poisoning. Key to superscripts: 1. Diarrhea lasting >2 weeks is generally defined as chronic; in such cases, many of the causes of acute diarrhea are much less likely, and a new spectrum of...
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