Clinical manifestation of Clostridium difficile enteritis in Calcutta.
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1991-09-01
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233 cases with acute diarrhoea investigated, Clostridium difficile was isolated as a sole pathogen from 17 (7.3%) cases. The Major clinical features of these cases were watery diarrhoea (82.4%), bloody stool (17.6%), vomiting (64.8%), fever (17.6%) and abdominal pain (2.5%). Fourteen (82.4%) of 17 C difficile isolates were found to produce cytotoxin as detected by Verocell assay.
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Bhattacharya MK, Niyogi SK, Rasaily R, Bhattacharya SK, Dutta P, Nag A, Pal SC. Clinical manifestation of Clostridium difficile enteritis in Calcutta. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. 1991 Sep; 39(9): 683-4