Abstract
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Highlights
The second case, a male patient in his eighties with indwelling Foley catheter, living non-institutionalised in Graz and without hospitalisation during the previous three months, suffered diarrheal illness for four weeks, after which his general condition deteriorated
The isolates were further characterised by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) in April 2008 as C. difficile PCR ribotype 027 by PCR ribotyping [7]
The two isolates were further characterised by multilocus variable-number tandemrepeats analysis (MLVA)
Summary
The second case, a male patient in his eighties with indwelling Foley catheter (a flexible latex tube that is passed through the urethra during urinary catheterization and into the bladder to drain urine), living non-institutionalised in Graz and without hospitalisation during the previous three months, suffered diarrheal illness for four weeks, after which his general condition deteriorated. The patient further deteriorated and was transferred to an intensive care unit on day five of hospitalisation. Patient’s charts revealed a peak temperature of 38.5°C, peak leucocytosis of 33,000 cells/microL, normal creatinine, and through serum albumin 4.0 g/L (norm: 37-53 g/L).
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