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Patients with AAHC typically present with abdominal pain and almost always bloody diarrhea. We present here the case of an adolescent patient who developed acute abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea after antibiotic treatment for acute urinary infection with amoxicillin-clavulanate. Right-sided colitis was verified by abdominal sonography. Stool culture tested negative for common gastrointestinal pathogens but yielded K oxytoca. Toxin production of the isolated strain was verified in a cell-culture assay. Cessation of the causative antibiotic treatment led to rapid improvement and cessation of bloody diarrhea within 3 days. We report here the first (to our knowledge) pediatric case of K oxytoca infection causing AAHC. 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