PEDIATRICS Vol. 66 No. 6 December 1980, pp. 932-935
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Antibiotic-Associated Pseudomembranous Colitis in Siblings

Arnold Schussheim MD1 and Ellie J. C. Goldstein MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, of the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn

Pseudomembranous colitis induced by antibiotics is not commonly diagnosed in children. Recent developments have clarified the pathogenesis and suggested that agents such as cholestyramine are therapeutically useful. Two siblings with pseudomembranous colitis were carefully studied and may serve to alert pediatricians to an approach to this entity.

Submitted on November 19, 1979
Accepted on March 14, 1980