The condition is usually caused by Gram-positive enteric commensal bacteria of the gut (gut flora). Clostridium difficile is a species of Gram-positive bacteria that commonly causes severe diarrhea and other intestinal diseases when competing bacteria are wiped out by antibiotics, causing pseudomembranous colitis, whereas Clostridium septicum is responsible for most cases of<unk> . Typhlitis most commonly occurs in immunocompromised patients, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, patients with AIDS, kidney transplant patients, or the elderly.
Neutropenic enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome
Clostridial necrotizing enteritis
Vesicointestinal fistula
Meconium peritonitis
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Distal intestinal obstruction syndrome