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Community-Acquired Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile Diarrhoea in the Normoxaemic Elderly Who Have Received No Antimicrobials: Soft Evidence for Ischaemic Colitis?
We report three examples of community-acquired toxigenic Clostridium difficile diarrhoea in elderly patients who had neither received antimicrobial therapy nor been institutionalised. These cases stimulated interest in the non-antimicrobial changes which might predispose the host to C. difficile-related disease and raised the spectre of bowel ischaemia as a possible aetiological factor.
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