Does alkaline colonic pH predispose to clostridium difficile infection?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 91-96

  Gupta, Purba ^a   Yakubov, Stanley ^a   Tin, Kevin ^a   Zea, Diego ^a   Garankina, Olga ^a   Ghitan, Monica ^a   Chapnick, Edward K ^a   Homel, Peter ^a   Lin, Yu Shia ^a   Koegel, Michael M ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; clostridium difficile infection; stool pH

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE ANTIGEN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALKALINITY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG USE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOOL PH; COLON; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; INTESTINAL SECRETIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL SECRETIONS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84957717801     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000414     Document Type: Article

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