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The blood culture revealed a Gram-positive bacillus.
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The blood culture revealed a Gram-positive bacillus (Fig. 1).
X-ray examination of this patient. It is shown that comminuted fracture of the middle segment of the right tibia, oblique fracture of the upper segment of the right fibula.
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April 2019, a 28-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with comminuted fracture of the middle segment of the right tibia and an oblique fracture of the upper segment of the right fibula (Fig. 2). After repeated manipulative reduction, the fracture could not be aligned properly.
The wound secretion was cultured on chromID C. difficile agar (CDIF) medium (Biomerieux  diagnostics, France) in anaerobic conditions (86% N2, 7% H2 and 7% CO2) at 37  C for detecting C. difficile. After 24 hours, some blank colonies with entire edges formed on the agar media after 24 h.
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Some blank colonies with entire edges formed on the agar media after 24 h (Fig. 3).