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DOI: 10.1177/089719009100400504 Infectious GastroenteritisCollege of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Infectious gastroenteritis currently constitutes the greatest source of morbidity and mortality among various age groups. Issues of focus for this article include establishing epidemiological determinants of risk for enteric infection, describing host factors that favor survival of the infecting enteric pathogen, defining pathophysiological mechanisms of diarrhea, and reviewing the therapeutic management of bacterial, protozoal, and viral infectious diarrhea.
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