PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 2 Clinical Syndromes: Community-Acquired Infections
128 Acute Infectious Diarrheal Diseases and Bacterial Food Poisoning
![]() | 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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