Escherichia coli is an important cause of intraintestinal and extraintestinal infections. Intraintestinal infections present as different diarrheal illnesses. Extraintestinal infections include disease of the urinary tract (see Chapter 553 ) and bloodstream ( Chapter 129, Chapter 202, Chapter 203 ).…
Shigellosis , infection by Shigella species , is acute invasive enteric infection clinically manifested by diarrhea that is often bloody. The term dysentery describes a syndrome of bloody diarrhea with fever, abdominal cramps, rectal pain, and mucoid stools. Bacillary dysentery…
From the time of birth, the human infant is exposed to a myriad of microbes found on the mother and in the surrounding environment. Microbes rapidly form assemblages across exposed areas of the body, including the skin and enteral tract.…