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       Gastrointestinal tract                                                                                                                                                                                           Gastrointestinal tract


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                                                                               Large intestinal
                                                                                 diarrhoea








                            Destruction of the normal   Anatomical abnormality   Noninflammatory irritation                                                            Inflammation                         Neoplasia
                               bacterial gut flora







                           – Antibiotic therapy       – Perineal hernia          – Irritable bowel                                                                                                      – Primary colonic
                                                      – Strictures                 syndrome/fiber-                                                        Noninfectious              Infectious           neoplasia
                                                      – Ileocaecal                 responsive diarrhoea                                                                                                 – Metastatic
                                                        invagination                                                                                                                                      disease




                                                                                                                                                      – IBD                    – Giardiosis
                                                                                                                                                      – Food allergy           – Helminths
                                                                                                                                                                               – Histiocytic ulcerative
                                                                                                                                                                                 colitis (Escherichiacoli)
                                                                                                                                                                               – Tritrichomonas
                                                                                                                                                                                 foetus (cat)
                                                                                                                                                                               – Clostridium spp.






































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