INFECTIOUS GASTROENTERITIS

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	INFECTIOUS GASTROENTERITIS
	*INFECTIOUS GASTROENTERITIS*

INFECTIOUS GASTROENTERITIS

The infectious gastroenteritis, is a disease caused by microorganisms, virus, bacteria or parasites or by the toxins that some of these produce in the intestine, causing their inflammation or alterations that they prevent him to work suitably.

This disease is very frequent and can be very dangerous and until mortal in smaller children of 5 years and greater people of 75 years, mainly in which they suffer undernourishment or its immunological system is diminished.

Some of the microoganismos that cause it are: Virus like the Rotavirus, Adenovirus enteric and Astrovirus; Bacteria like the Salmonella, the Shigella, the Vibrion Colerico, the Campylobacter and the Escherichia Coli; Parasites like the histolítica Entamoeba, the Trichinella spiralis, or the Schistosoma.

These microorganisms or parasites acquire by means of contaminated foods or water and produce the disease when they arrive at the intestine and they are multiplied or they installed in him.

So that this picture can be developed, it is necessary that the responsible agents reach to the intestine, carried by the water or foods and can flank some mechanisms of defense like the acidity of the stomach, flora of habitual microorganisms of the intestine, intestinal contractions and diverse substances that would prevent the colonization and intestinal infection.

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