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A Case of Clostridium difficile Bacteremia in a Patient with Loop Ileostomy

Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, is the most common nosocomial pathogen causing pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile is not intrinsically invasive and rarely infects extraintestinal sites. The bacterium, therefore, is not commonly detected in...

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Autores principales: Choi, Jae-Lim, Kim, Bo-Ram, Kim, Ji-Eun, Woo, Kwang-Sook, Kim, Kyeoung-Hee, Kim, Jeong-Man, Lee, Su-Ee, Han, Jin-Yeong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/alm.2013.33.3.200