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Gastrointestinal Infections

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Gastrointestinal infections are common in community and hospitalized patients. In older adults, the presentation of such infections, which typically includes fever, abdominal pain, and leukocytosis, may be subclinical or even asymptomatic. Treatment of intra-abdominal infections requires swift diagnoses, source control, and empiric treatment with antibiotics effective against common pathogen associated with each infectious syndrome. Targeted treatment with a narrow spectrum agent may be initiated based upon culture and susceptibly data of the infecting pathogens, when available. Antibiotic choice is driven by disease process (local versus systemic), place of acquisition (community acquired, hospital acquired, and healthcare associated), disease severity, patient characteristics such as renal or hepatic insufficiency, and microbial resistant patterns, as well as local and regional epidemiology.

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Rosenthal, M.E. (2021). Gastrointestinal Infections. In: Pitchumoni, C.S., Dharmarajan, T. (eds) Geriatric Gastroenterology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30192-7_72

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