Incidence of diarrhea and Clostridium difficile toxin in stools from hospitalized patients receiving clindamycin, beta-lactams, or nonantibiotic medications

J Clin Gastroenterol. 1996 Mar;22(2):161-3. doi: 10.1097/00004836-199603000-00024.

Authors

V Thamlikitkul¹, K Danpakdi, S Chokloikaew

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

PMID: 8742665
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199603000-00024

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Bacterial Toxins*
Clindamycin / therapeutic use*
Clostridioides difficile*
Diarrhea / epidemiology*
Diarrhea / microbiology
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / epidemiology*
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology
Enterotoxins / analysis
Feces / chemistry
Female
Hospitalization
Humans
Incidence
Infections / drug therapy*
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
beta-Lactams / therapeutic use*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial Toxins
Enterotoxins
beta-Lactams
tcdA protein, Clostridium difficile
Clindamycin