Pancreatic abscess caused byClostridium difficile
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 7 (4), 528-529
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01962606
Abstract
The first known case of pancreatic abscess caused byClostridium difficile in a patient with no history of diarrhea or previous antibiotic therapy is presented. After surgical intervention and antibiotic therapy with metronidazole (500 mg every 8 h) and cefotaxime (1 g every 8 h) the patient recovered completely.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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