Intestinal and parasitic infections
Acute Intestinal Infections (A.I.I) are one of the primary causes of hospitalization in infectious disease departments. In accordance with the data provided by the contemporary literature the following bacterial and viral agents are the most often detectable and generally spread etiological agents of AII:
Bacterial agents:
Shigella species microorganisms and enteroinvasive E coli (EIEC);
Salmonella species microorganisms;
Thermophillic group of Campylobacter species microorganisms;
Enteropathogenic E coli (EPEC) and enteroaggregative E coli (EAEC);
Viral agents
Group A rotaviruses;
Genotype 2 noroviruses;
Group F adenoviruses (Types 40 and 41);
Astroviruses.
The following causative agents are less widely or not universally spread but are no less important for epidemic outbreaks:
Vibrio cholerae;
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; 2.
Clostridium difficile;
Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC);
Genotype 1 Enteroviruses;
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