What is Dysentery?

What is Dysentery?

• Dysentery: A general term for various bacterial digestive disorders.
• Dysentery: an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Dysentery: Introduction

Types of Dysentery:

Types of Dysentery:

• Amebic dysentery - caused by bowel infection with ameba.
• Bacillary dysentery - digestive infection by Shigella bacteria.
• Balantidial dysentery - caused by Balantidium coli
• Bilharzial dysentery - worm infection by Schistosoma haematobium
• Ciliary dysentery
• Epidemic dysentery
• Flagellate dysentery
• Fulminant dysentery
• Institutional dysentery
• Malarial dysentery - with fever like that in malaria, but not actually caused by malaria.
• Malignant dysentery
• Protozoal dysentery - caused by protozoa
• Schistosomal dysentery - worm caused
• Scorbutic dysentery - caused by scurvy
• Sonne dysentery
• Spirillar dysentery
• Sporadic dysentery - occasional unrelated cases.
• Swine dysentery
• Viral dysentery
• Amebic dysentery
• Viral dysentery
• Shigellosis
• more types...»

Broader types of Dysentery:

• Bacterial diseases
• Digestive Diseases
• Infectious Diarrhea
• Sudden Digestive Conditions
• Bacterial digestive infections
• Waterborne Diseases
• Diseases contagious from bedding
• Diseases contagious from clothing
• Diseases contagious from food
• Diseases contagious from contaminated water
• Intestinal Conditions
• Bowel conditions
• Colon conditions
• more types...»

How serious is Dysentery?

Complications of Dysentery: see complications of Dysentery

What causes Dysentery?

Causes of Dysentery: see causes of Dysentery
Cause of Dysentery: Depends on the subtype, including bacteria, chemicals, protozoa, or worms.
Risk factors for Dysentery: see risk factors for Dysentery

What are the symptoms of Dysentery?

Symptoms of Dysentery: see symptoms of Dysentery

Complications of Dysentery: see complications of Dysentery

Can anyone else get Dysentery?

Contagion of Dysentery: Spread by contaminated food or water; also clothing or bedding.
More information: see contagiousness of Dysentery

Dysentery: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Dysentery.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Dysentery.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Dysentery: see treatments for Dysentery
Prevention of Dysentery: see prevention of Dysentery
Research for Dysentery: see research for Dysentery

Organs Affected by Dysentery:

Organs and body systems related to Dysentery include:

• Intestine
• Digestive
• Colon

Name and Aliases of Dysentery

Main name of condition: Dysentery

Class of Condition for Dysentery: bacterial

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Dysentery:

• Shigellosis
• Dysentery
• Bacillary dysentery
• Diarrhea
• Bacterial infection
• Intestinal infection
• Shigella organisms
• Shigella boydii
• Shigella dysenteriae
• Shigella sonnei
• Shigella flexneri
• S dysenteriae
• S flexneri
• S sonnei
• S boydii

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