Ökosystem Darm Special: Updates on Clostridium difficile

This book deals with the spectrum of intestinal pathology caused by Clostridium difficile. The clinical aspects (atypical forms particularly in childhood and old age), diagnosis (culture, identification of toxins), epidemiology (prevalence of C. difficile in hospital stool cultures, nosocomial infection, epidemiological markers) and treatment (antibiotics, management of recurrent infection) are covered. The mode of action of the toxins and the mechanisms of immunity to them are described by the leading international specialists in the field.