Commentary: Barfett JG, Onderdonk AB, Cisneros RL, Kasper DL. Clindamycin-associated colitis due to a toxin-producing species of Clostridium in hamsters. J Infect Dis 1977; 136:701

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 202-209

  Bartlett, John G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; LINCOMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANAEROBIC INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GAS GANGRENE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; PUBLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH SURGERY; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GUINEA PIG; HISTORY; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CRICETINAE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GUINEA PIGS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS;

EID: 3042764669     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421470     Document Type: Note

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