Community-acquired C. difficile infection and medication
Risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia
... from community hospi- tals, which included patients with CAP, found that CDI was associated with higher in-hospital mortality among patients discharged for pneumonia or urinary tract ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Hospital Associated and Community Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection in a Swedish County
... endogenous infection and apparent relapse rather than to primary and recurring episodes of apparent exogenous or- ...no C. difficile strains with superior transmission ability were observed, and ...
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Community-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection: an increasing public health threat
... in C. difficile isolates, the isola- tion of C. difficile in food and animals, the similarities in strains isolated from animals and humans, and the absence of traditional risk factors in a ...
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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with community acquired clostridium difficile infection: a case–control study
... Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of morbidity and ...hospital acquired infection, up to 40% of CDI could be acquired in the community by individuals ...
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Comorbidities, exposure to medications, and the risk of community-acquired clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Previous studies found that gastrointestinal comorbidities such as inflammatory bowel disease 12 and cirrhosis 14 were associated with a worse prognosis in patients with CDI. Simi- larly, congestive heart disease, chronic ...
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Epidemiological and genomic characterization of community acquired Clostridium difficile infections
... value. A control group of nosocomial strains were col- lected from inpatients admitted during the study period. All stools were diarrheal. A nosocomial strain was defined as a stool specimen positive for C. ...
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Community-acquired infection with hypervirulent Clostridium difficile isolates that carry different toxin and antibiotic resistance loci: a case report
... Case presentation A 30-year-old woman was admitted at the emergency room with a wound in her upper right limb after a cat bite. Physical examination showed good general con- ditions with a 2 cm diameter wound, ...
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Prospective study of community acquired rotavirus infection
... For the other two episodes (infants 95 and 97), the titers of neutralizing antibodies against all three serotypes of subgroup Il viruses (i.e., serotypes 1, 3, and 4) were increased sign[r] ...
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Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection in Community Teaching Hospital: A Retrospective Study
... Clostridium difficile bacteria create the ideal host for ...the infection is sufficiently treated or that the infection may not warrant necessary ...
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Risk factors for poor outcome in community-onset Clostridium difficile infection
... antibiotic agent and proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use for the previous 1 month. We collected data on clinical manifestations (vital signs such as blood pressure, body temperature, Glasgow coma scale, stool frequency > ...
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ETIOLOGY AND ANTIBIOGRAM OF COMMUNITY ACQUIRED URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN HYDERABAD
... of community acquired urinary tract infections was found to be predominant in women in their reproductive age group ...in community acquired infection is a matter of ...
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Community Acquired Poliovirus Infection in Children with Primary Immunodeficiencies in Tunisia
... this rate of horizontal transmission to immunocompromised patients does not indicate higher susceptibility to polio infec- tion. Molecular analysis of excreted polioviruses confirmed that they resulted from a recent ...
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CONSUMERS UNION POLICY BRIEF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED C. DIFFICILE INFECTIONS (CDI) 11-08
... hospital-acquired infection reporting laws, upon which ...hospital acquired infection laws as of Oct ...hospital-specific C. diff infection rates will allow consumers to see ...
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Proton pump inhibitors increase the risk for hospital acquired Clostridium difficile infection in critically ill patients
... Methods: This retrospective, case-control study was conducted using the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II database, a large publically available database of more than 35,000 ICU patients. Adult ...
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Epidemiological study of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection in Kuwait teaching hospitals and investigation of their virulence characteristics
... to infection control guidelines and policies may be responsible for the relatively low prevalence ...Kuwait. C. difficile strains from Kuwait appear to be uniquely resistant to imipenem with a high ...
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Risk factors for recurrent hospital-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile</em> infection in a Japanese university hospital
... Dovepress Hikone et al Although most patients respond well to the discontinua- tion of antibiotics and administration of oral metronidazole or vancomycin, 20%–30% of patients experience recurrence. 4 Therefore, the ...
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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
... CA: Community- acquired; CD027: C. difficile ribotype 027; CDC: the Centers for Disease Control; CDI: Clostridium difficile infection; CDT: Binary toxin; CIs: Confidence ...
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Microbiome Data Distinguish Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection and Non C difficile Associated Diarrhea from Healthy Controls
... had C. difficile infection or non-C. difficile-associated diarrhea based on clinical and microbiome ...indices, community types, and defined bacterial ...of community ...
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The role of the humoral immune response to Clostridium difficile toxins A and B in susceptibility to C. difficile infection: a case-control study
... Our study has several notable limitations. First, ribotyping data for isolates was generally not available. We are unable to assess how the role of immune responses varies with infecting ribotype. However, ribotype 027 ...
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Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection: A Narrative Review
... CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION Different diagnostic techniques used by laboratories have been highlighted as an area of concern when estimates of CDI prevalence are being conducted across multiple sites or ...
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