Cholera differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]
Overview
Patient may give a history of consumption of contaminated food or water, and travel to an endemic area. The symptoms usually develop within 24-48 hour of consumption of contaminated food. Patient presents with sudden onset, painless, odorless, rice watery large volume stool, abdominal cramps, vomiting and fever. It should be differentiated from other infectious causes of diarrhea for e.g. rotavirus, E.coli, amebic dysentry and giardiasis. It should also be differentiated from some non-infectious causes of diarrhea for e.g. VIPoma, tubulovillous adenoma and food poisoning.
Differential diagnosis
Complete Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of Encephalitis
(By organ system)
| Cardiovascular | No underlying causes |
| Chemical / poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | No underlying causes |
| Hematologic | Vasculitic Neuropathy |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | Botulism, diphtheria, Lyme disease, poliomyelitis, CMV, paresis caused by West Nile fever |
| Musculoskeletal / Ortho | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | Cauda Equina and Conus Medullaris Syndromes, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis, acute myelopathies with chronic back pain and sphincter dysfunction |
| Nutritional / Metabolic | Metabolic Myopathies, Nutritional Neuropathy, |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | No underlying causes |
| Opthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose / Toxicity | Heavy Metal Toxicity, poisonings with organophosphate, poison hemlock, thallium, or arsenic |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal / Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheum / Immune / Allergy | |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | porphyria |