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ENTEROTOXIGENIC CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS: A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHOEA
- Source :
- The Lancet. 323:305-307
- Publication Year :
- 1984
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1984.
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Abstract
- Free Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin was detected in the stools of 11 patients with diarrhoea. All had high faecal counts of enterotoxigenic strains of C perfringens, mostly of serotypes not commonly associated with food poisoning. 10 of these 11 patients had severe or prolonged diarrhoea which had developed after antibiotic treatment. Enterotoxigenic C perfringens appears to be one of the causes of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea.
- Subjects :
- Diarrhea
Male
Serotype
Clostridium perfringens
medicine.drug_class
Antibiotics
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Enterotoxin
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Microbiology
Enterotoxins
Feces
medicine
Humans
Aged
Food poisoning
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Virology
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Clostridium Infections
Female
medicine.symptom
Bacteria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01406736
- Volume :
- 323
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Lancet
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....aca36f6997f237214d7943970f617342