Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Gorkiewicz, G.
Nosocomial and antibiotic-associated diarrhoea caused by organisms other than Clostridium difficile.
Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2009; 33 Suppl 1: S37-S41.
Doi: 10.1016/S0924-8579(09)70015-9
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- Most cases of nosocomial and antibiotic-associated diarrhoea are caused by alteration of the physiological gut microflora. This alteration leads to reduced microbial metabolism of carbohydrates and primary bile acids, resulting in osmotic or secretory forms of diarrhoea. Moreover, facultative enteropathogens may experience a growth advantage due to the antibiotic-induced microflora alteration that, in turn, can harm the gut mucosa by the toxins they produce. Clostridium difficile is the major infectious agent leading to pseudomembranous colitis. However, there is increasing evidence that certain other pathogens such as enterotoxin-producing Clostridium perfringens, Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella oxytoca can induce mucosal deterioration and diarrhoea after antibiotic use. But, as with C. difficile, these facultative enteropathogens can also be found in the healthy population. Their contribution to disease is, therefore, controversial and their presence in the stools of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea patients is often claimed to be mere colonisation. In this respect, the causal relationship of each suspected pathogen with the development of intestinal disease has to be proved clinically and experimentally.
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- Anti-Bacterial Agents - adverse effects
- Clostridium Infections - microbiology
- Clostridium perfringens - isolation and purification
- Cross Infection - microbiology
- Diarrhea - microbiology
- Humans -
- Klebsiella Infections - microbiology
- Klebsiella oxytoca - isolation and purification
- Staphylococcal Infections - microbiology
- Staphylococcus aureus - isolation and purification
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- Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea
- Microflora alteration
- Clostridium perfringens
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