If you have an infection in your digestive system (gut) it may become damaed and inflamed, causing a variety of symptoms, such as feeling bloated, sick, diarrhoea or having tummy pain. 


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Traveller’s Diarrhoea

Person sat down holding their belly in pain because of clostridium difficile

Clostridium difficile 

Diarrhoea and vomiting (gastroenteritis)

Giardiasis

Person collecting water with their hands from water tap 

Cholera

Dysentery

Cyclospora

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Parasites are organisms that survive by living off another organism, known as a 'host'. Parasite infections are more common in tropical parts of the world, and include malaria and gut infections, like giardiasis.


Parasitic hookworm Ancylosoma (credit - Dr_Microbe)

parasite-infection

Tape Worm (Diphyllobothrium latum)

Hookworm infection

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Gut infection summary

Gut infection

Traveller’s Diarrhoea

Clostridium difficile

Diarrhoea and vomiting (gastroenteritis)

Giardiasis

Cholera

Dysentery

Cyclospora

Amoebiasis: causes and treatment

Tape Worm (Diphyllobothrium latum)

Hookworm infection

Gut infection summary

Gut infection

Traveller’s Diarrhoea

Clostridium difficile

Diarrhoea and vomiting (gastroenteritis)

Giardiasis

Cholera

Dysentery

Cyclospora

Amoebiasis: causes and treatment

Tape Worm (Diphyllobothrium latum)

Hookworm infection

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