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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Causes
There are many causes of diarrhea and it is important to recognize which ones are serious and which are not. Infectious agents are the primary cause of TD. Bacterial enteropathogens cause approximately 80% of TD cases. Pathogens implicated in travellers' diarrhea are:
| E. coli, enterotoxigenic | 20-75% |
| E. coli, enteroaggregative | 0-20% |
| E. coli, enteroinvasive | 0-6% |
| Shigella spp | 2-30% |
| Salmonella spp | 0-33% |
| Campylobacter jejuni | 3-17% |
| Vibrio parahemolyticus | 0-31% |
| Aeromonas hydrophila | 0-30% |
| Giardia lamblia | 0 to less than 20% |
| Entamoeba histolytica | 0-5% |
| Cryptosporidium sp | 0 to less than 20% |
| Rotavirus | 0-36% |
| Norwalk virus | 0-10% |