A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place

Clostridium difficile (CD), a bacterium responsible for causing 15%-25% of all cases of infectious diarrhea, is most commonly associated with infection of the colon. Rarely, though with increasing frequency, it has been noted to infect the small intestine in what is referred to as CD enteritis. We p...

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Autores principales: Aujla, Amreet K, Averbukh, Leon D, Potashinsky, Alexander, Rossi, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259128
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4519
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author Aujla, Amreet K
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description Clostridium difficile (CD), a bacterium responsible for causing 15%-25% of all cases of infectious diarrhea, is most commonly associated with infection of the colon. Rarely, though with increasing frequency, it has been noted to infect the small intestine in what is referred to as CD enteritis. We present the case of a patient who was diagnosed and treated for CD enteritis, review the pathophysiology behind the infection, and discuss the diagnostic and treatment options available to healthcare professionals.
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spelling pubmed-65908662019-06-29 A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place Aujla, Amreet K Averbukh, Leon D Potashinsky, Alexander Rossi, Lisa Cureus Internal Medicine Clostridium difficile (CD), a bacterium responsible for causing 15%-25% of all cases of infectious diarrhea, is most commonly associated with infection of the colon. Rarely, though with increasing frequency, it has been noted to infect the small intestine in what is referred to as CD enteritis. We present the case of a patient who was diagnosed and treated for CD enteritis, review the pathophysiology behind the infection, and discuss the diagnostic and treatment options available to healthcare professionals. Cureus 2019-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6590866/ /pubmed/31259128 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4519 Text en Copyright © 2019, Aujla et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Aujla, Amreet K
Averbukh, Leon D
Potashinsky, Alexander
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A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place
title A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place
title_full A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place
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title_short A Rare Case of Clostridium difficile Enteritis: A Common Bug in an Uncommon Place
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590866/
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