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Clostridium difficile colitis causing toxic megacolon, severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

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  1. Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia, Department of Clinical Anaesthesia, The Royal Group of Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 68A, Northern Ireland

    Giles Dobson

  2. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Giles Dobson, Caroline Hickey & John Trinder

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Dobson, G., Hickey, C. & Trinder, J. Clostridium difficile colitis causing toxic megacolon, severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Intensive Care Med 29, 1030 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1754-7

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