A 24 yr old woman suffered from recurrent episodes of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) for the past 13 months. She routinely experienced profuse watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever. As with most patients who have CDI, the woman had been taking an oral antibiotic shortly before her symptoms began- in this case to treat a tooth infection. When the patient first started experiencing CDI, her doctor told her to stop taking the antibiotic prescribed for her tooth infection, hoping the CDI would resolve on its own, When that did not help, the doctor prescribed a different antibiotic that is often effective at treating CDI. The patient started feeling better, but the symptoms quickly returned when she stopped taking the antibiotic. What are some features of C. dif bacteria? Why would certain oral antibiotics allow C. dif to thrive in the intestinal tract? What effect does C. dif have on intestinal cells that causes the symptoms? What are some treatments for antibiotic-refractory C. dif? How do they work?

A 24 yr old woman suffered from recurrent episodes of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) for the past 13 months. She routinely experienced profuse watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever. As with most patients who have CDI, the woman had been taking an oral antibiotic shortly before her symptoms began- in this case to treat a tooth infection. When the patient first started experiencing CDI, her doctor told her to stop taking the antibiotic prescribed for her tooth infection, hoping the CDI would resolve on its own, When that did not help, the doctor prescribed a different antibiotic that is often effective at treating CDI. The patient started feeling better, but the symptoms quickly returned when she stopped taking the antibiotic. What are some features of C. dif bacteria? Why would certain oral antibiotics allow C. dif to thrive in the intestinal tract? What effect does C. dif have on intestinal cells that causes the symptoms? What are some treatments for antibiotic-refractory C. dif? How do they work?

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