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What causes c diff my doctor said i came to the hospital with it but i did not have any symptoms prior to admission?
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Antibiotics: Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that is highly resistant to most antibiotics, but grows very slowly in the gut; most times, the other gut bacteria out-compete it, and it just stays dormant. If you are exposed to antibiotics that kill off a large part of the other bacteria, c diff can now grow and produce toxin and infection.
Answered 3/30/2013
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