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7875833

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-31
pubmed:abstractText
A case control study was carried out at the medical wards of Dr. B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children, Calcutta, between January and September 1989. One hundred eleven hospitalized children up to the age of 5 years, receiving antibiotics for different medical problems, developed antibiotic associated diarrhea. Isolation of Clostridium difficile as sole pathogen was very low (3.6%) from these patients. Fecal samples of 111 case matched control children were also screened for C.difficile. Only 2.7% fecal samples of control children were positive for C.difficile. All the strains of C.difficile isolated from antibiotic associated diarrhea cases showed neutralisable cytotoxin in in vitro test. In contrast none of the strains isolated from control children showed cytotoxicity. This study suggests that C.difficile is not an important pathogen related to antibiotic associated diarrhea in children at this hospital.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0019-6061
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
121-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Clostridium difficile in antibiotic associated pediatric diarrhea.
pubmed:affiliation
National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Disease, Beliaghata, Calcutta.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article