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1. We studied intestinal glucose transport in pigs during the acute and convalescent phases of an invasive viral enteritis, transmissible gastroenteritis. 2. When diarhoea was severe 40 h after experimental infection, net absorption of glucose, Na+ and water, measured by marker perfusion in the jejunum, was reduced; the enhancement of Na+ and water absorption in response to increasing perfusate glucose concentrations up to 120 mmol/l was diminished compared with the response observed in control and convalescent pigs. 3. Measured in vitro, 40 h after infection, unidirectional fluxes of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose across the jejunal epithelium were reduced and net absorption of the sugar was obliterated. Phlorizin (0.05 mmol/l), which completely inhibited net 3-O-methyl-D-glucose absorption in control tissue, had no significant effect on transmissible gastroenteritis jejunum. 4. Our data suggest that in this invasive viral enteritis, which closely resembles human rotavirus enteritis, glucose absorption is impaired as a result of defects in both active and passive glucose flux. 5. Differences between the mechanisms of viral diarrhoea, demonstrated by our study and those of the enterotoxigenic diarrhoeas, should be taken into consideration in formulating active therapeutic measures for children with acute viral diarrhoea.
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PMID:Intestinal glucose transport in acute viral enteritis in piglets. 724 53

Campylobacter fetus enteritis is thought to be an unusual infection in the newborn. We describe eight term neonates with gastroenteritis caused by C fetus subspecies jejuni who were seen during a two-year period. Symptoms of bloody diarrhea (7/8) and irritability (6/8) began between 2 and 11 days of age. None of the infants was seriously ill; only one infant was febrile. None of the seven infants who had blood cultures drawn had bacteremia with C fetus, and none of the infants had complications. The infants were treated with antimicrobial agents and recovered rapidly. Five mothers had Campylobacter cultured from the stool or vagina. The cases were not related epidemiologically. We concluded that Campylobacter gastroenteritis in the newborn clinically resembles Campylobacter gastroenteritis in older children and adults, except that it is generally an afebrile illness. The bacterium most likely is acquired from the mother during or shortly after delivery.
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PMID:Campylobacter gastroenteritis in neonates. 729 89

In 1979 a canine parvovirus infection was widespread among dogs in Sweden. During the epizootic faecal samples were taken for bacteriological examination from 77 hospitalised dogs at an animal clinic. Forty-nine of the dogs had signs of gastroenteritis and they were all infected with canine parvovirus according to serological investigations. The remaining 28 dogs were referred to the clinic for other reasons. Campylobacter was isolated from 23 out of the 49 dogs with gastroenteritis and from 4 out of 28 dogs lacking symptoms of enteritis. The significance of these findings is discussed.
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PMID:Concomitant occurrence of Campylobacter and parvoviruses in dogs with gastroenteritis. 734 13

A three year survey on sheep deaths and their causes was conducted on 10 commercial farms in the north of Scotland. Diseases and other trauma associated with the perinatal period accounted for 56.81% of all ewe deaths, while pneumonia, parasitic gastroenteritis, torsion of the bowel and haemorrhagic enteritis (redgut) accounted for a further 21.7%. No one disease condition predominated in the rams and hoggs. In lambs, most deaths occurred between birth and four days old (77.86%). Causes came in the form of starvation and exposure (34.2%), stillbirths (18.2%), lambing injuries (11.06%), infectious conditions (8.0%), dystocia (7.6%) and abortion (5.2%). The overall death rate among the lambs was 14.2%.
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PMID:A survey of sheep losses and their causes on commercial farms in the north of Scotland. 736 90

The use of negative contrast electronmicroscopy of stool suspension in the investigation of the aetiology of childhood gastroenteritis has led to the recognition of a number of candidate viral agents. There is convincing evidence that rotavirus is the single most important cause of community acquired gastroenteritis, and is responsible for some nosocomial outbreaks. The epidemiology of rotavirus acqusition, differential clinical susceptibilities of young and older infants, pathogenesis of disease, mechanisms of immunity and breast milk protection, and the role of different viral serotypes are aspects as yet poorly understood; and attempts to propagate human rotavirus in tissue culture have met with only limited success. Moreover, the aetiologically unaccountable one third of cases of infantile diarrhoea, and the association of enteritis with up to six other virus-like particles add to the complexity of the problem. This review considers the available data from human and animal studies, and based on the experience of ourselves and others comments on the present state of knowledge and trends in continuing research.
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PMID:New concepts in viral gastroenteritis. 739 Jun 21

The pathogenicity of neutralization-resistant mutants of the enteric coronavirus transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) was examined in the newborn piglet. The parental virus (Purdue-115 strain), as well as several mutants selected using monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directed to antigenic sites A and B, caused an acute enteritis with 100% mortality. By contrast, most of the site D (MAb 40.1) mutants exhibited a strongly reduced enteropathogenicity, leading to the survival of animals inoculated with up to 1000-fold the 100% lethal dose of parental virus. Such a phenotypical change was correlated with point mutations or a small deletion, all located within the S gene sequence coding for the Pro-145 to Cys-155 segment of the mature polypeptide. These observations suggest that an N-terminal subregion of the S molecule is an essential determinant for pathogenesis in TGEV infection.
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PMID:Site-specific alteration of transmissible gastroenteritis virus spike protein results in markedly reduced pathogenicity. 756 60

Salmonella serotypes which elicit human enteritis cannot be distinguished from those that do not on the basis of their in vitro interactions with eukaryotic cells. We have recently reported that an enteritis-producing strain of Salmonella typhimurium signals intact intestinal epithelium to recruit subepithelial neutrophils to migrate across the epithelial (B. A. McCormick, S. P. Colgan, C. D. Archer, S. I. Miller, and J. L. Madara, J. Cell Biol. 123:895-907, 1993). We now utilize a cell culture model of human intestinal epithelium (with T84 cells) to examine whether such transepithelial signaling to neutrophils by salmonellae is predictive of potential to elicit gastroenteritis. Various Salmonella serotypes, including S. typhimurium, S. enteritidis, S. pullorum, S. arizonae, S. typhi, and S. paratyphi, as well as invasion-defective mutants of S. typhimurium, were studied. Strains or serotypes which elicit diffuse enteritis in humans (defined histologically as transepithelial migration of neutrophils) exhibited transepithelial signaling to neutorphils across epithelial cell monolayers, while those which do not elicit diffuse enteritis in humans did not display transepithelial signaling. In contrast, the ability to enter the apical surface of T84 cells did not differentiate strains or serotypes which induce diffuse enteritis from those which do not. These results strongly suggest that the ability of salmonellae to elicit transepithelial signaling to neutrophils is a key virulence mechanism underlying Salmonella-elicited enteritis.
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PMID:Transepithelial signaling to neutrophils by salmonellae: a novel virulence mechanism for gastroenteritis. 776 13

The examination of 265 patients with the diagnosis of acute enteric infection (AEI) of Klebsiella revealed that the disease took a mild course in 40%, a moderate course in 45.3% and a severe course in 14.7% of the patients. The clinical syndromes of acute gastritis, gastroenteritis, enteritis were observed; in cases of the severe course of AEI the hemolytic [correction of hemocolitic] syndrome was present. Immune shifts were characterized by T lymphopenia, a decrease in the number of T helpers/inductors (CD 4), the immunoregulatory indices (CD 4/CD 8), an increase in the level of circulating immune complexes. These levels reached their maximum in case of the severe course of Klebsiella infection and were retained till the patient was discharged from the hospital and, if any concomitant pathology was present, even for 1-3 months after discharge.
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PMID:[The clinico-immunological characteristics and treatment of an intestinal infection of Klebsiella etiology]. 787 88

In the period from 2-10 August 1991 an outbreak caused by S. paratyphi B occurred in five rural areas of the district of Leipzig. Eleven patients and one excreter were involved, and mild forms of disease were observed in most cases. In three of the patients a mixed infection with S. litchfield was diagnosed. Moreover at the same time 21 cases of enteritis caused by S. litchfield and three excreters associated with this serovar were registered in these five rural areas. Both infections with S. paratyphi B and S. litchfield occurred 1-3 days after consumption of smoked halibut. The fish smoked in a smokehouse in the Grimma rural area was delivered to the shops every day. The inspection of the smokehouse and the dispatch department provided no signs of contaminations. In the smoked fish samples investigated subsequently, Salmonella were no longer detectable. The results of typing confirm the identity of all S. paratyphi B strains isolated. The possibilities of contamination of the smoked halibut are discussed. This study emphasises the possible transmission of salmonella by way of the food fish. On that occasion also a non-frequent serovar such as S. paratyphi B can be isolated and a light course of disease as e.g. febrile gastroenteritis can be observed and may attain epidemiological significance.
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PMID:[Outbreak of Salmonella paratyphi B infections in connection with consumption of smoked fish]. 801 69

The genus Campylobacter has become increasingly recognised as the cause of various infections. Campylobacter jejuni and C coli cause acute gastroenteritis in man all over the world. C jejuni enteritis can lead to bacteraemia, but its actual incidence remains unknown. Seven cases of bacteraemia caused by C jejuni or C coli are reported, from the blood of seven patients: five immune deficient adults; a newborn baby; and a patient who had had abdominal surgery. Patients who develop diarrhoea as a result of Campylobacter infection are at risk of bacteraemia thereafter.
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PMID:Bacteraemia caused by Campylobacter spp. 766 14


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