Community-acquired toxigenic clostridium difficile diarrhoea in the normoxaemic elderly who have received no antimicrobials: Soft evidence for ischaemic colitis?

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-16

  Laing, R B S ^a   Dykhuizen, R S ^a   Smith, C C ^a   Gould, I W ^a   Reid, T M S ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Diarrhoea; Ischaemic colitis; Pseudomembranous colitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 0029979215     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003693309604100106     Document Type: Article

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