| CSGBM | collagenase soluble glomerular basement membrane |
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| HCI | Health Commons Institute; human collagenase inhibitor |
| HSC | Hand-Schuller-Christian [syndrome]; Health and Safety Commission; health sciences center; health scr... |
| IHSC | immunoreactive human skin collagenase |
| clostridium difficile | A bacterium, one of the most common causes of infection of the large bowel (colon) in the U.S. Affecting millions of people yearly. Patients taking antibiotics are at risk of becoming infected with C. Difficile.Antibiotics disrupt the normal bacteria of the bowel, allowing C. Difficile bacteria to become established in the colon. Many persons infected with C. Difficile bacteria have no symptoms. These people become carriers of the bacteria and can infect others. In other people, a toxin produced by C. Difficile causes diarrhoea, abdominal pain, severe inflammation of the colon (colitis), fever, an elevated white blood count, vomiting and dehydration. In severely affected patients, the inner lining of the colon becomes severely inflamed (a condition called pseudomembranous colitis). Rarely, the walls of the colon wear away and holes develop (colon perforation), which can lead to a life-threatening infection of the abdomen. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Clostridium fallax | A species found in war wounds, appendicitis, and black leg of sheep; it produces a weak exotoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium haemolyticum | A species found in cattle dying of icterohemoglobinuria; it is pathogenic and toxic for guinea pigs and rabbits and produces an unstable, haemolytic toxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clostridium infections | Infections with bacteria of the genus clostridium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Clostridium innominatum | A species found in septic and gangrenous war wounds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium microsporum | A species found in the abdominal contents of a fatal case of peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium multifermentans | A species found in a human muscle infected with gas gangrene; also found in fermented olives and spoiled chocolate candy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium nigrificans | Former name for Desulfotomaculum nigrificans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium novyi | A species consisting of three types, A, B, and C; type A, from a case of gaseous gangrene and from human necrotic hepatitis, produces gamma-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); B, from black disease (infectious necrotic hepatitis) of sheep, produces beta-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); and C, found in bacillary osteomyelitis of water buffaloes, does not produce toxin. Synonym: Clostridium oedematiens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium oedematiens | A species consisting of three types, A, B, and C; type A, from a case of gaseous gangrene and from human necrotic hepatitis, produces gamma-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); B, from black disease (infectious necrotic hepatitis) of sheep, produces beta-toxin (a haemolytic lecithinase); and C, found in bacillary osteomyelitis of water buffaloes, does not produce toxin. Synonym: Clostridium oedematiens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium parabotulinum | A species containing organisms formerly referred to as Clostridium botulinum types A and B; the types are identified by protection tests with known type antitoxin; it produces a powerful exotoxin and is pathogenic for man and other animals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium paraputrificum | A species found in faeces, especially those of infants, gaseous gangrene, and postmortem fluid and tissue cultures; it is not pathogenic for rabbits or guinea pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clostridium perfringens | The most common aetiologic agent of gas gangrene. It is differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Clostridium ramosum | A species found in the natural cavities of man and other animals as well as in sea water; it is also found in association with mastoiditis, otitis, pulmonary gangrene, putrid pleurisy, appendicitis, intestinal infections, balanitis, liver abscess, osteomyelitis, septicaemia, and urinary infections, as well as in the vagina and in faeces. It was formerly the type species of the obsolete genus Ramibacterium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clostridium septicum | A species found in malignant oedema of animals, in human war wounds, and in cases of appendicitis; it is pathogenic for guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, and pigeons and produces an exotoxin that is lethal and haemolytic. Synonym: Ghon-Sachs bacillus, Sachs' bacillus, vibrion septique. (05 Mar 2000) |