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Figure 1

View larger version (74K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Clostridium difficile. The use of antibiotics may allow Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic bacterium sometimes isolated as part of the normal fecal flora, to overgrow in the gut; the toxins it produces may cause pseudomembranous colitis. (Cultured in reinforced clostridium medium; source: American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md.; x14,520).

 

David M. Phillips, Ph.D.
The Population Council
New York, NY 10021

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