A Case of Clostridium difficile Bacteremia in a Patient with Loop Ileostomy.
10.3343/alm.2013.33.3.200
- Author:
Jae Lim CHOI
1
;
Bo Ram KIM
;
Ji Eun KIM
;
Kwang Sook WOO
;
Kyeoung Hee KIM
;
Jeong Man KIM
;
Su Ee LEE
;
Jin Yeong HAN
Author Information
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. jyhan@dau.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Clostridium difficile;
Bacteremia;
Loop ileostomy
- MeSH:
Anti-Bacterial Agents/*therapeutic use;
Bacteremia/*drug therapy;
Clostridium difficile/genetics/*isolation & purification;
Colonic Neoplasms/pathology/secondary;
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/drug therapy/microbiology;
Humans;
Ileostomy;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology;
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry/genetics;
Sequence Analysis, RNA
- From:Annals of Laboratory Medicine
2013;33(3):200-202
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium, is the most common nosocomial pathogen causing pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile is not intrinsically invasive and rarely infects extraintestinal sites. The bacterium, therefore, is not commonly detected in blood cultures. Here, we report a case of C. difficile bacteremia in a patient who had underwent loop ileostomy because of rectal obstruction following metastatic colon cancer originated from prostate cancer.
