Infectious Diarrhea - Laboratory Testing Clostridium difficile Salmonella enterica, Shigella spp, Campylobacter spp Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi (enteric fever) Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli Yersinia spp, Plesiomonas spp, Edwardsiella tarda, Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli (enterotoxigenic, enteroinvasive, enteropathogenic, enteroaggregative) Clostridium perfringens Bacillus cereus, S. aureus Clostridium botulinum Entamoeba histolytica; Blastocystis homini, Dientamoeba fragilish; Balantidium coli; Giardia lamblia; nematodes (generally not associated with diarrhea) including Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralisi, Trichuris trichiura, hookworms; cestodes (tapeworms); trematodes (flukes) E. histolytica G. lamblia Cryptosporidium spp Cyclospora cayetanensis, Cystoisospora belli Microsporidia (now classified as a fungus) Calicivirus (norovirus, sapovirus); enteric adenovirus; enterovirus/parechovirus; rotavirus Rotavirus, enteric adenovirus Enteric adenovirus; enterovirus/parechovirus Cytomegalovirus #Infectious #Diarrhea #diagnosis #differential #Laboratory #Testing
