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Clostridium difficile colitis and zoonotic origins—a narrative review
Clostridium difficile is a major cause of hospital-associated diarrhoea, and in severe cases leads to pseudomembranous colitis and toxic megacolon. The frequency of C. difficile infection (CDI) has increased in recent decades, with 453 000 cases identified in 2011 in the USA. This is related to anti...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gastro/goy016 |