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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2312-3893</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Virtual de la Sociedad Paraguaya de Medicina Interna]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. virtual Soc. Parag. Med. Int.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2312-3893</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Paraguaya de Medicina Interna]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S2312-38932018000100087</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18004/rvspmi/2312-3893/2018.05(01)87-093</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Colitis pseudomembranosa por Clostridium difficile]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Pseudomembranous colitis due to Clostridium difficile]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sanguina]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marta]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pineda]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gladys Alexis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Benítez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Paola Elizabeth]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Nacional Departamento de Medicina Interna ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Itauguá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Paraguay</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional de Itapúa. Facultad de Medicina ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Encarnación ]]></addr-line>
<country>Paraguay</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>5</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>87</fpage>
<lpage>93</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2312-38932018000100087&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2312-38932018000100087&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2312-38932018000100087&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Se presenta caso de mujer de 22 años que presenta una celulitis en la región del muslo lado derecho por lo que recibe antibióticos por vía oral en un principio con amoxicilina y luego por vía parenteral con quinolona más clindamicina y consulta a nuestro Servicio por diarrea y dolor abdominal. La rectosigmoidoscopía detecta colitis pseudomembranosa. Las toxinas por C. difficile resultaron positivas en heces. Se inició tratamiento antibiótico específico con lo que el cuadro diarreico cesó.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT The case of a 22-year-old woman with cellulitis on the right side of the thigh region is presented. She receives oral antibiotics initially with amoxicillin and then parenterally quinolone plus clindamycin and consults our service for diarrhea and abdominal pain. Rectosigmoidoscopy detects pseudomembranous colitis. Toxins of C. difficile were positive in feces. Specific antibiotic treatment was started and then the diarrheic symptoms stopped.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Clostridium difficile]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[enterocolitis seudomembranosa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[diarrea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[dolor abdominal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Clostridium difficile]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[pseudomembranous enterocolitis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[diarrhea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[abdominal pain]]></kwd>
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