clinical syndromes
Last reviewed 06/2021
Three clinical syndromes are recognised:
- acute food poisoning which itself does not always have an infective aetiology.
- acute watery diarrhoea, caused by invasive or enterotoxin-producing organisms that are transmitted via contaminated food or water or, occasionally, contact from person to person.
- bloody diarrhoea, with obvious blood within the faeces, caused by both invasive and enterotoxin-producing forms.