Pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of Clostridium difficile diarrhea and colitis.

Adult Bacterial Proteins Bacterial Toxins/adverse effects Carrier State/microbiology Child Child, Preschool Clostridioides difficile/isolation & purification,pathogenicity,physiology Clostridium Infections/epidemiology,microbiology,pathology Colitis/etiology,microbiology,pathology Colon/microbiology,pathology Cross Infection/epidemiology,microbiology Diarrhea/etiology,microbiology,pathology Disease Susceptibility Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/etiology,microbiology,pathology Enterotoxins/adverse effects Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/complications Intestinal Perforation/etiology Recurrence Risk Factors Ulcer Virulence rho GTP-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors,physiology

Bacterial Proteins Bacterial Toxins Enterotoxins tcdA protein, Clostridium difficile toxB protein, Clostridium difficile rho GTP-Binding Proteins