Abdominal - Stomach Infections
Peritonitis is defined as inflammation of the peritoneum (the serous membrane which lines part of the abdominal cavity
and some of the viscera it contains). Many of the bacteria have been implicated in wound and necrotizing (flesh
eating) infections.
3 microorganisms are listed by EPA as primary pathogens in sludge biosolids
9 microorganisms are coliform which EPA claims will not cause disease.
Many bacteria also cause necrotizing infections -- flesh eating bacteria
1. Achromobacter -- Peritonitis
2. Actinobacilus
3. Actinobacteria or Actinomycetes -- intraperitoneal abscesses
4. Bacullius -- Necrotizing Gastritis
5. Bacteroides genus: -- abscesses -- Necrotizing Fasciitis
6. Campylobacter jejuni -- abdominal pain -- gastrointestinitis
EPA lists as Primary Pathogen in sludge biosolids
7. Citrobacter -- gastrointestinal tract (coliform)
8. Clostridium -- enterocolitis
9. Cyanobacteria (Blue-green algae) -- Acute, severe gastroenteritis
10. Edwardsiella -- peritonitis -- Gastroenteritis (coliform)
11. E.coli -- As a group E. coli (coliform) causes inflammatory diarrhea , destruction of red blood cells and kidney
failure (hemolytic-uremic syndrome), urinary tract infections, bacteremia, meningitis,
severe, lung infection , pneumonia, abscesses in the lining of the lungs (empyema),
necrotizing "flesh eating" infections in the urinary tract and the abdominal cavity.
EPA lists as Primary Pathogen in sludge biosolids
12. Enterobacter -- necrotizing enterocolitis (coliform)
13. Francisella tularensis -- peritonitis in stomach cancer patient.
14. Helicobacter genus : -- peptic ulcers and chronic gastritis in America -- The gastric clone libraries from 19 subjects
contained H. pylori rDNA; however, only 12 of these subjects tested positive for H. pylori by conventional
laboratory methods
15. Kluyvera --- fatal peritonitis -- empyema, (coliform)
16. Leminorella -- peritonitis (coliform)
17. Morganella -- peritonitis (coliform)
18. Rothia dentocariosa -- dialysis-related peritonitis
19. Salmonella -- peritonitis (Coliform)
EPA lists as Primary Pathogen in sludge biosolids
20 Xanthomonas maltophilia -- peritonitis
21. Yersinia -- peritonitis (Coliform)