Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report

The case illustrates the myriad of fulminating complications due to Clostridium difficile infection in a previously healthy individual without any risk factors. Community acquired Clostridium difficile infection can occur even many weeks after the course of broad spectrum antibiotics. There is no de...

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Autores principales: Kolli, Sreedhar, Mallipedhi, Akhila, Thomas, Rhys, Reddy, Male Kishore
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181200
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7978
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author Kolli, Sreedhar
Mallipedhi, Akhila
Thomas, Rhys
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description The case illustrates the myriad of fulminating complications due to Clostridium difficile infection in a previously healthy individual without any risk factors. Community acquired Clostridium difficile infection can occur even many weeks after the course of broad spectrum antibiotics. There is no definitive pattern or guidelines to predict who would develop the fulminating complications.
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spelling pubmed-28271212010-02-24 Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report Kolli, Sreedhar Mallipedhi, Akhila Thomas, Rhys Reddy, Male Kishore Cases J Research article The case illustrates the myriad of fulminating complications due to Clostridium difficile infection in a previously healthy individual without any risk factors. Community acquired Clostridium difficile infection can occur even many weeks after the course of broad spectrum antibiotics. There is no definitive pattern or guidelines to predict who would develop the fulminating complications. BioMed Central 2009-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2827121/ /pubmed/20181200 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7978 Text en Copyright ©2009 Kolli et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title_full Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title_fullStr Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title_short Injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating Clostridium difficile infection: a case report
title_sort injudicious antibiotic use leading to fulminating clostridium difficile infection: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181200
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7978
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