Recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis: Case series involving 18 patients treated with donor stool administered via a nasogastric tube

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 580-585

  Aas, Johannes ^a   Gessert, Charles E ^a   Bakken, Johan S ^a  

^a Duluth Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; DEATH; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0037373020     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367657     Document Type: Article

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