{"title":"Management of Clostridium Difficile : case study and review of the basic tenets : case report","authors":"M. Roberts","doi":"10.4314/SAGR.V9I2.69477","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Clostridium difficile, classically causing bloody diarrhoea after long term antibiotic use, and producing pseudo-membrenous colitis on endoscopy used to be a rarity. It has reached epidemic proportions in Europe and North America and has become commonplace in South Africa.","PeriodicalId":39144,"journal":{"name":"South African Gastroenterology Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"9-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South African Gastroenterology Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SAGR.V9I2.69477","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Clostridium difficile, classically causing bloody diarrhoea after long term antibiotic use, and producing pseudo-membrenous colitis on endoscopy used to be a rarity. It has reached epidemic proportions in Europe and North America and has become commonplace in South Africa.