Comment on

• Fulminant Clostridium difficile: an underappreciated and increasing cause of death and complications.

  Dallal RM, Harbrecht BG, Boujoukas AJ, Sirio CA, Farkas LM, Lee KK, Simmons RL. Dallal RM, et al. Ann Surg. 2002 Mar;235(3):363-72. doi: 10.1097/00000658-200203000-00008. Ann Surg. 2002. PMID: 11882758 Free PMC article.
• Breaking the cycle: treatment strategies for 163 cases of recurrent Clostridium difficile disease.

  McFarland LV, Elmer GW, Surawicz CM. McFarland LV, et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 2002 Jul;97(7):1769-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2002.05839.x. Am J Gastroenterol. 2002. PMID: 12135033 Clinical Trial.
• Prevalence of gastrointestinal disease caused by Clostridium difficile in a university hospital in Hungary.

  Urbán E, Tusnádi A, Terhes G, Nagy E. Urbán E, et al. J Hosp Infect. 2002 Jul;51(3):175-8. doi: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1210. J Hosp Infect. 2002. PMID: 12144795
• Detection of toxin production in Clostridium difficile strains by three different methods.

  Yücesoy M, McCoubrey J, Brown R, Poxton IR. Yücesoy M, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2002 Jul;8(7):413-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00440.x. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2002. PMID: 12199851
• Adjunctive intracolonic vancomycin for severe Clostridium difficile colitis: case series and review of the literature.

  Apisarnthanarak A, Razavi B, Mundy LM. Apisarnthanarak A, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Sep 15;35(6):690-6. doi: 10.1086/342334. Epub 2002 Aug 26. Clin Infect Dis. 2002. PMID: 12203166 Review.
• Clostridium difficile colitis: an increasingly aggressive iatrogenic disease?

  Morris AM, Jobe BA, Stoney M, Sheppard BC, Deveney CW, Deveney KE. Morris AM, et al. Arch Surg. 2002 Oct;137(10):1096-100. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.137.10.1096. Arch Surg. 2002. PMID: 12361411