The case of the month: Clostridium difficile colitis;Le cas clinique du mois. Colite à clostridium difficile

Revue Medicale de Liege

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 750-752

  Laret, V ^a   Sion, C ^b   Bataille, Ch ^c   Hustinx, R ^e   Reginster, M ^d,f  

^a CHRH Huy ^*

^b Service de Microbiologie   (France)

^c Service de Gastro Entérologie Hoptial Erasme   (Belgium)

^d CHRH Huy

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^f Centre Hospitalier Hutois   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; ITRACONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; APLASIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; RELAPSE; RISK FACTOR; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS;

EID: 39049196056     PISSN: 00353663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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