COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED TOXIGENIC CLOSTRIDIUM-DIFFICILE DIARRHEA IN THE NORMOXAEMIC ELDERLY WHO HAVE RECEIVED NO ANTIMICROBIALS - SOFT EVIDENCE FOR ISCHEMIC COLITIS

Authors
LAING RBS DYKHUIZEN RS SMITH CC GOULD LW REID TMS
Citation
Rbs. Laing et al., COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED TOXIGENIC CLOSTRIDIUM-DIFFICILE DIARRHEA IN THE NORMOXAEMIC ELDERLY WHO HAVE RECEIVED NO ANTIMICROBIALS - SOFT EVIDENCE FOR ISCHEMIC COLITIS, Scottish Medical Journal, 41(1), 1996, pp. 15-16
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Scottish Medical Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00369330
Volume
41
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
15 - 16
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-9330(1996)41:1<15:CTCDIT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We report three examples of community-acquired toxigenic Clostridium d ifficile diarrhoea in elderly patients who had neither received antimi crobial therapy nor been institutionalised. These cases stimulated int erest in the non-antimicrobial changes which might predispose the host to C. difficile-related disease and raised the spectre of bowel ischa emia as a possible aetiological factor.