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Gastrointestinal infections are common with an enormous negative impact on public health throughout the world. Despite a global incidence, they occur more frequently in underdeveloped or developing countries. The organisms associated with such infections are ubiquitous. Periodic outbreaks and epidemics represent a significant burden to society. The majority of infections are transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water. Most organisms rely on the oral-fecal transmission cycle. Infectious colitidies represent a wide spectrum of conditions that encompasses bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. While most symptomatic patients recover with conservative and medical management, a subset of patients can develop extraintestinal disease in organs such as the liver and/or severe complications such as life-threatening colonic perforation. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of infectious colitidies, especially in immunocompromised patients, can decrease the associated morbidity and mortality.

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Reickert, C.A., Abbas, M.A. (2022). Infectious Colitis. In: Steele, S.R., Hull, T.L., Hyman, N., Maykel, J.A., Read, T.E., Whitlow, C.B. (eds) The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66049-9_51

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