Bacteremia Due to Clostridium Difficile: Case Report and Review of the Literature

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to report a case of C. difficile bacteremia in a Crohn’s disease patient and to review the literature on previously reported cases. METHODS: Searches of MEDLINE and PubMed databases were made. RESULTS: We report the first case of C. difficile bacteremia in a C...

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Autores principales: Daruwala, Cherag, Mercogliano, Giancarlo, Newman, Gary, Ingerman, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179365
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description OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to report a case of C. difficile bacteremia in a Crohn’s disease patient and to review the literature on previously reported cases. METHODS: Searches of MEDLINE and PubMed databases were made. RESULTS: We report the first case of C. difficile bacteremia in a Crohn’s disease patient. There are 15 other reported cases of C. difficile bacteremia reported in the literature. We found that the majority of patients (10 of 15 patients) had polymicrobial bacteremia and that the overall mortality rate is significant, with 6 of 15 reported patients dying. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, we find that C. difficile bacteremia is associated with a significant mortality rate and it would seem prudent to consider aggressive antibiotic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-37853512013-10-31 Bacteremia Due to Clostridium Difficile: Case Report and Review of the Literature Daruwala, Cherag Mercogliano, Giancarlo Newman, Gary Ingerman, Mark J. Clin Med Case Rep Case Report OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to report a case of C. difficile bacteremia in a Crohn’s disease patient and to review the literature on previously reported cases. METHODS: Searches of MEDLINE and PubMed databases were made. RESULTS: We report the first case of C. difficile bacteremia in a Crohn’s disease patient. There are 15 other reported cases of C. difficile bacteremia reported in the literature. We found that the majority of patients (10 of 15 patients) had polymicrobial bacteremia and that the overall mortality rate is significant, with 6 of 15 reported patients dying. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, we find that C. difficile bacteremia is associated with a significant mortality rate and it would seem prudent to consider aggressive antibiotic therapy. Libertas Academica 2009-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3785351/ /pubmed/24179365 Text en © 2009 by the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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