investigation of enterocolitis incidence due to clostridium difficile from the referred to tehran hospitals

pseudomembrane colitis (pmc) and antibiotic associated colitis (aac) are acute disease of the colon. in the case of in adequate treatment, the disease will often become chronic and my lead to the dysplasia of the epithelial cells of the infected areas. previously because of poor knowledge. treatment in this case, one of the method for treatment was surgical ablation of the large intestine while the patients could have been treated with oral vancomycin. in this study the following results were obtained: out of 2517 enterocolitis patients under study, 1384 were men and 1133 women. by anaerobic culture method, 132 cases c.difficile were isolated from the total samples and hela cell culture method, toxin was determined in 36 samples (1.43%).