Clostridium difficile, LM
Light micrograph of the bacterium Clostridium difficile is made from an impression smear of 72 hr anaerobe blood agar. Clostridium difficile is a spore forming bacteria which can be part of the normal intestinal flora in as many as 50% of children under age two. Clostridium difficile is a major cause of pseudomembranous colitis and antibiotic associated diarrhea. Clostridium difficile is a species of gram-positive bacteria of the genus Clostridium that causes severe diarrhea and other intestinal disease when competing bacteria in the gut flora have been wiped out by antibiotics. Clostridia are anaerobic, spore-forming rods (bacilli).
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