A case of Clostridium difficile bacteremia in a patient with loop ileostomy

Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, is the most common nosocomial pathogen causing pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile is not intrinsically invasive and rarely infects extraintestinal sites. The bacterium, therefore, is not commonly detected in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of laboratory medicine 2013, 33(3), , pp.200-202
Hauptverfasser: Choi, Jae-Lim, Kim, Bo-Ram, Kim, Ji-Eun, Woo, Kwang-Sook, Kim, Kyeoung-Hee, Kim, Jeong-Man, Lee, Su-Ee, Han, Jin-Yeong
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Zusammenfassung:Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, is the most common nosocomial pathogen causing pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile is not intrinsically invasive and rarely infects extraintestinal sites. The bacterium, therefore, is not commonly detected in blood cultures. Here, we report a case of C. difficile bacteremia in a patient who had underwent loop ileostomy because of rectal obstruction following metastatic colon cancer originated from prostate cancer.
ISSN:2234-3806
2234-3814
DOI:10.3343/alm.2013.33.3.200