Clostridium difficileColitis after Forced Anal-Receptive Intercourse

  • Guzman, Yvonne
  • Stone, Elizabeth A.
  • Fung, Horatio B.
  • Bräu, Norbert

  • 1Pharmacy Program, Bronx

    2Critical Care Section, Bronx

    3Infectious Diseases Section, Medical Program, Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx

    4Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Norbert Bräu, Bronx VA Medical Center, Infectious Diseases Section (111F), 130 W. Kingsbridge Rd., Bronx, New York 10468 ([email protected]).

Received 15 July 2003; revised 8 October 2002; accepted 20 October 2003.

Clinical Infectious Diseases 36(4):p e61-e62, February 15, 2003. | DOI: 10.1086/367652

Colitis caused by Clostridium difficile toxin has been reported in homosexual men. We report a case of C. difficile colitis that occurred in an immunocompetent heterosexual man after forced anal-receptive intercourse.

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