Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous
"Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acute inflammation of the INTESTINAL MUCOSA that is characterized by the presence of pseudomembranes or plaques in the SMALL INTESTINE (pseudomembranous enteritis) and the LARGE INTESTINE (pseudomembranous colitis). It is commonly associated with antibiotic therapy and CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE colonization.
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D004761
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.410.222.310 C06.405.205.596.800 C06.405.469.363.800
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous" by people in Profiles.
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Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The RECIDIVISM Study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2016 08; 111(8):1141-6.
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Exposure of neutralizing epitopes in the carboxyl-terminal domain of TcdB is altered by a proximal hypervariable region. J Biol Chem. 2015 Mar 13; 290(11):6975-85.
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Emergency department visits related to Clostridium difficile infection: results from the nationwide emergency department sample, 2006 through 2010. Acad Emerg Med. 2015 Jan; 22(1):117-9.
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Fecal microbiota transplantation in the treatment of Clostridium difficile infections. Am J Med. 2014 Jun; 127(6):479-83.
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Clostridium difficile 027/BI/NAP1 encodes a hypertoxic and antigenically variable form of TcdB. PLoS Pathog. 2013; 9(8):e1003523.
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Clostridium difficile toxins: mechanism of action and role in disease. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005 Apr; 18(2):247-63.
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Reclassification of Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al., 1937) in a new genus Alistipes gen. nov., as Alistipes putredinis comb. nov., and description of Alistipes finegoldii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol. 2003 Jun; 26(2):182-8.
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Colitis due to antituberculous chemotherapy. South Med J. 1991 Feb; 84(2):285.
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Antibiotic-associated colitis treated with oral vancomycin. J Okla State Med Assoc. 1979 Dec; 72(12):428-9.
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Antibiotic-associated or toxin mediated colitis. A unifying hypothesis. J Okla State Med Assoc. 1978 Dec; 71(12):453-6.