Clostridium difficile infection
Mortality and Clostridium difficile infection: a review
... by Clostridium difficile ranges from uncomplicated diarrhoea to pseudomem- branous colitis and toxic megacolon, and is often termed ‘Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhoea ’ or ...
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Diversity of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes in Europe: results from the European, multicentre, prospective, biannual, point-prevalence study of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients with diarrhoea (EUCLID), 2012 and 2013
... Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the major cause of infective diarrhoea in healthcare ...of Clostridium diffi- cile infection in hospitalised patients with diarrhoea (EUCLID), ...
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Comparison of GenomEra C difficile and Xpert C difficile as Confirmatory Tests in a Multistep Algorithm for Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection
... of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is cru- cial for optimal disease control (1, ...C. difficile assay (Xpert) (GeneXpert; Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) that detects the toxin B gene ...
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Clostridium difficile infection in Italian urban hospitals: data from 2006 through 2011
... Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most frequent cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea in industrialized ...of infection occurring in less than 2% of cases [3], ...
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium Difficile Infection
... The increased prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has cause significant clinical and economic burden. There has been a major challenge for recurrent CDI due to poor response to ...
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Effectiveness and safety of probiotics in the treatment of clostridium difficile infection in european countries: a systematic review
... safe with minor side effects such as abdominal pain, which is the major complaint in their study, although 3 deaths were recorded out of 55 patients. A recent survey conducted by Baker et al. (2015) also showed that ...
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Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Asia
... While Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has come to prominence as major epidemics have occurred in North America and Europe over the recent decade, awareness and surveillance of CDI in Asia have ...
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Clostridium difficile infection in an Iranian hospital
... Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality internationally, yet there are important regional differences in the epidemiology and microbiology ...
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The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Australia
... 2. Sartelli M, Malangoni MA, Abu-Zidan FM, Griffiths EA, Di Bella S, McFarland LV, Eltringham I, Shelat VG, Velmahos GC, Kelly CP, Khanna S, Abdelsattar ZM, Alrahmani L, Ansaloni L, Augustin G, Bala M, Barbut F, ...
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Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized adults and the first isolation of C difficile PCR ribotype 027 in central China
... Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), which is caused by toxigenic ...C. difficile (TCD), has been linked to health- care facility-associated (HCFA) diarrhea since 1977 ...
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Microbiome Data Distinguish Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection and Non C difficile Associated Diarrhea from Healthy Controls
... C. difficile growth in vitro (19), inflammation suppression, and the health of colonic ...against infection by ...C. difficile (23, ...C. difficile in a murine model of recurrent CDI ...
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Managing Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients
... the Infection prevention and control nurses (IPCPs) used the Department of Health (DH) (2009; 2007) and epic 2 guidelines (Pratt et al 2007) to develop a daily review of all newly diagnosed and current patients in ...
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Molecular epidemiology of endemic Clostridium difficile infection
... C. difficile [7]. C. difficile spores are highly resistant to many commonly used disinfectants and may persist for many months in hospital ward environments ...C. difficile positive healthcare ...
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Evaluation of the host response to Clostridium difficile infection
... 163 Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the unprecedented wave of outbreaks witnessed in the last decade was a result of global spread of emerging strains originating from North America, most likely driven by increased ...
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2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients
... The indigenous gut microbiota is a complex community of microorganisms that populates the gastrointestinal tract in a healthy person. This micro-ecosystem plays a crucial role in protecting the intestines by providing ...
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Antibodies for Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection
... C. difficile strains in hamsters (7, 43) and the relative impotence in humans of anti-TcdA treatment alone (29) versus that of concomitant anti-TcdA and anti-TcdB treatments (34), that it is prudent for future ...
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Emerging therapies for Clostridium difficile infection – focus on fidaxomicin
... of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) has evolved during the last decades, with an increase in the reported incidence, severity of cases, and rate of mortal- ity and ...C. difficile and minimal ...
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Evaluation of Correlation between Pretest Probability for Clostridium difficile Infection and Clostridium difficile Enzyme Immunoassay Results
... difficile infection (CDI) is a common and serious health care-associated infection; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were 453,000 CDI cases and 29,300 associated deaths in ...
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Effects of co-infection on the clinical outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection
... Although efforts were made to minimize confounding variables and evaluate the effects of co-infection on the outcomes of CDI, there are still some limitations to this study. This was a retrospective chart review ...
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The pitfalls of laboratory diagnostics of Clostridium difficile infection
... Negative, Toxin B-Negative, Binary Toxin-Positive Clostridium difficile in a Young Patient. 117[r] ...
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