RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Pseudomembranous colitis secondary to <em>methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus</em> (MRSA)
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr2016215225
DO 10.1136/bcr-2016-215225
VO 2016
A1 Kalynn B Pressly
A1 Emilie Hill
A1 Kairav J Shah
YR 2016
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2016/bcr-2016-215225.abstract
AB A 37-year-old woman with a history of type II diabetes and Crohn's disease, status postcholecystectomy, presented with a &gt;2-week history of cramping abdominal pain, nausea, non-bloody/non-bilious emesis and, later, diarrhoea. A flexible sigmoidoscopy was performed, revealing that ‘a segmental pseudomembrane was found from rectum to sigmoid colon’. Clostridium difficile PCR on the stool was repeated twice and resulted negative both times. A food history prior to onset of symptoms was consistent with Staphylococcal food poisoning and a stool culture was positive for heavy growth of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the absence of enteric flora. The patient was successfully treated with oral vancomycin.