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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• NIYOGI, SWAPAN KUMAR
• BHATTACHARYA, SUJIT KUMAR
• DUTTA, PHALGUNI
• NAIK, TRAILOKYA NATH
• DE, SHOUMYA PRAKASH
• SEN, DIPAK
• SAHA, MALAY RANJAN
• DATTA, DHARITRI
• NAIR, GOPINATH BALAKRISH
• MITRA, UTPALA
• BHATTACHARYA, MIHIR
• RASAILY, RITA
• PAL, SUDHIR CHANDRA

Titel

PREVALENCE OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE IN HOSPITALISED PATIENTS WITH ACUTE DIARRHOEA IN CALCUTTA

Ist Teil von

• Journal of diarrhoeal diseases research, 1991-03, Vol.9 (1), p.16-19

Ort / Verlag

Bangladesh: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During a 12-month period, Clostridium difficile was isolated from 38 (11.1%) of 341 hospitalised patients suffering from acute diarrhoea and from five (3%) of 172 patients as control who were admitted with illnesses other than diarrhoea. It was the sole bacterial pathogen in 31 cases. 87% of the isolates obtained from patients with diarrhoea produced neutralisable cytotoxin. None of these patients had any history of previous treatment using antibiotics. No age or gender-specific high incidence was observed. Clinical presentation in these patients revealed no distinctive pattern. Both dysenteric and diarrhoeal presentations were found, the latter being more frequent. The results suggest that Clostridium difficile by itself may be a causal agent of acute diarrhoea.