Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Clostridium difficile

David M. Phillips, Ph.D.

N Engl J Med 1994; 330:256January 27, 1994

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Figure 1 Clostridium difficile.

The use of antibiotics may allow Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic bacterium sometimes isolated as part of the normal fecal flora, to overgrow in the gut; the toxins it produces may cause pseudomembranous colitis. (Cultured in reinforced clostridium medium; source: American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md.; x14,520).

Kim Eagle, M.D.

David M. Phillips, Ph.D.
The Population Council, New York, NY 10021