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Gastroenteritis

Late-stage therapeutic developmentEmerging researchRising momentum
5
Publications
19
Clinical trials
1
Related conditions
2024
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What's happening now

An analyst briefing on current research, clinical, regulatory and industry activity surrounding this disease.

Clinical Milestones8View
Activity timeline8

Clinical trials

14 sponsors · 1 new · 2 completed in the last 12 months (net +1)

The current development programme across all trial phases.

Clinical programme
19
All trials
6
Active
15
Late-stage
6
Completed
Late-stage studies
Recently completed

Research activity

5 papers

Key research shaping understanding of this disease, combining the latest publications with the most influential evidence.

Publications over time
20212024
Most influential
Recent publications
Major themes8
  • Foodborne Diseases2
  • Gastroenteritis2
  • Campylobacter1
  • Campylobacter Infections1
  • Communicable Diseases1
  • COVID-191
  • Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors1
  • Neoplasms1
Leading journals4
  • Epidemiology and infection2
  • Frontiers in immunology1
  • PLoS computational biology1
  • The New England journal of medicine1
Leading researchers8
  • Adegboye O1
  • Amant F1
  • Baarslag MA1
  • Barone M1
  • Beijnen JH1
  • Borgers JSW1
  • Buitelaar PLM1
  • Castellanos ME1
Affiliations (unnormalised)6
  • Amalia Children's Hospital1
  • Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine1
  • Australian National University1
  • Centre for Infectious Disease Control1
  • Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology1
  • College of Public Health1

Related conditions

1 match

Diseases frequently studied alongside this one. Number shows shared papers.

Disease profile

A grounded synthesis of the condition — overview, causes, mechanism, risk factors and current standard of care.

Overview

Gastroenteritis is inflammation of any part of the gastrointestinal tract, extending from the esophagus to the rectum. The supplied grounding indicates that it can arise from multiple causes, including infection, genetic factors, hypersensitivity, drug effects, and cancer.

Causes

The MeSH definition identifies several etiologic categories for gastroenteritis: genetic causes, infection, hypersensitivity, drug effects, and cancer. The review material also supports infectious gastroenteritis associated with food-borne bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Vibrio, and Listeria species.

Pathophysiology

Gastroenteritis involves inflammatory changes in the gastrointestinal tract. The supplied review material further supports an immunologic component in gut inflammation, including interactions between the intestinal microbiota, probiotics, and host immune homeostasis.

Risk factors

The grounding supports infection as a major risk factor or cause, including exposure to food-borne bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Vibrio, and Listeria species. It also supports environmental conditions associated with higher incidence of infectious gastroenteritis, including ambient temperature and precipitation.

Current standard of care

The supplied grounding only supports that gastroenteritis is covered in the literature under drug therapy and diagnosis, but it does not provide enough detail to identify specific treatment classes. Based on the available material, standard management cannot be stated beyond general treatment-oriented and diagnostic evaluation contexts.

AI-generated summary grounded in MeSH and 2 peer-reviewed sources. Informational only — not medical advice. Generated 2026-07-07.

Reference

Authoritative identity, definition & identifiers.

Defined in MeSH

INFLAMMATION of any segment of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT from ESOPHAGUS to RECTUM. Causes of gastroenteritis are many including genetic, infection, HYPERSENSITIVITY, drug effects, and CANCER.

References & data sources
  • Disease identity & definition — NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), public domain
  • Clinical trials — ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
  • Research activity — Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI) + OpenAlex-derived paper links
  • Related entities are derived from literature co-mention (studied together) — associative, not causal.