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Enterotoxigenic strains of Clostridium perfringens have been recently implicated in some cases of antibiotic associated diarrhoea, especially in hospitalised elderly patients. We present a case of diarrhoea associated with enterotoxigenic C. perfringens in a young adult not implicated in an episode of food poisoning and who did not receive antimicrobial therapy.
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