Clostridium Difficile Colitis During Antituberculous Treatment
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Clostridium difficile colitis
Bacteriology and Pathogenesis Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive sporeforming anaerobic bacillus, which is found in the stool flora of 25-80% of healthy infants but rarely in the stool of healthy adults and children over the age of 12 months. Ingested spores of C. difficile survive the gastric acid barrier and germinate in the colon. Colonization of the adult intestinal tract occurs when ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1220-5818
DOI: 10.2478/inmed-2021-0160