Question: What are most common organisms implicated in traveler’s diarrhea?
Answer:
- Enterotoxigenic E. coli
- Shigella sp.
- Campylobacter jejuni
- Plesiomonas sp.
- Rotavirus
- Cryptosporidium sp.
- Enteroaggregative E. coli
- Salmonella sp.
- Aeromonas sp.
- Norwalk virus
- Giardia sp.
- Cyclospora sp.
Reference: Lichetenstein GR, Wu GD (eds): The Requisites in Gastroenterology: Vol 2: Small and Large Intestines. St. Louis, Mosby, 2003
