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  • Title: Crohn's disease with persistence of Clostridium difficile, surgical elimination.
    Author: DeRidder PH, Kadro O.
    Journal: J Clin Gastroenterol; 1985 Jun; 7(3):269-72. PubMed ID: 2862181.
    Abstract:
    Clostridium difficile has been associated with increased activity of Crohn's disease in some patients, and in them its eradication has proved beneficial. We have seen a patient unresponsive to two courses of vancomycin with persistence of C. difficile colonization and toxin production in whom surgical intervention eliminated the C. difficile cytotoxin and organism.
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