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Managing Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients [PDF]

, 2014
Checklists are not a new phenomenon and have been used in the aviation industry for some time as a means of ensuring safety and minimising harm. Checklists are now used commonly in health care to improve patient safety.
Topping, Annie, Denton, Andrea, Denton, A, Topping, A; id_orcid, Humphreys, Paul, Humphreys, P   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Competitive SELEX Strategy for High‐Affinity Aptamer Isolation and Enhanced Biosensing

Small, EarlyView.
A novel competitive SELEX strategy was developed to isolate high‐affinity aptamers by using a lower‐affinity competitor during the selection process. This approach enabled the identification of an aptamer with exceptional binding affinity, significantly improving target detection sensitivity.
Jiuxing Li, Jiaxuan Xiao, Jimmy Gu, Zhen Zhang, Yingfu Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in hospitalized patients in the southwestern province of Saudi Arabia: Confirmation using the GeneXpert analysis

Libyan Journal of Medicine
Clostridium difficile (Clostridioides difficile) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections in hospitalized patients worldwide. Stool samples were collected from 112 inpatients admitted to different hospitals and were screened for C.
Nader Kameli, Vinod Kumar Basode, Ahmed Abdulhaq, Mohammed Uthman A. Alamoudi, Khalid Amaash Mohammed Zain, Ahmad Hassn Ghzwani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two‐Dimensional Materials For Lateral Flow Assays: A Critical Review of Functional Roles and Translational Challenges

VIEW, EarlyView.
2D nanosheets, with large surface area, excellent optical/electrical properties, and high specificity, combine with lateral flow assay strips to enable rapid, readable detection, boosting the strips’ development and applications. Abstract Lateral flow assays (LFAs) are widely used for point‐of‐care diagnostics, but their detection capability remains ...
Weimin Xu, Ruping Liu, Na Gao, Jianxiao Zhu, Haowen Jiang, Shouzheng Jiao, Zhicheng Sun, Kai Shen, Gaolian Xu, Minghua Du, Ziyan Li, Yang Wang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonthermal plasma approaches for combating implant‐associated infections: A compendious review

VIEW, EarlyView.
Implant‐associated infections pose serious clinical challenges. Non‐thermal plasma (NTP) modifications overcome this bottleneck in distinct ways relative to traditional sterilization methods. Gas‐phase plasmas generate highly energetic species, UV radiation and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (RONS), which alter the implant surface properties.
A. M. Trimukhe, Satish Rojekar, Amol Gholap, K. Navaneetha Pandiyaraj, Mukesh Patekar, Claudia Riccardi, R. R. Deshmukh, Tomáš Kovářík, Kalim Deshmukh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methods currently applied to study the prevalence of Clostridioides difficile in foods

, 2020
Clostridioides difficile is responsible for most cases of antibiotic- and hospital-associated diarrhoea. Several studies have demonstrated the presence of C.
Teixeira, Paula, Campos, Ana, Barbosa, Joana   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Strategies for enhancing sensitivity in lateral flow assays

VIEW, EarlyView.
Lateral flow assays (LFAs) are essential for cost‐effective, rapid point‐of‐care diagnostics. However, conventional colourimetric LFAs often lack the sensitivity required for low‐abundance biomarkers. This review evaluates six enhancement strategies: flow modulation, sample preconcentration, advanced reporters, chemical signal amplification, structural
Aylar Eslami Saed, Jacopo Giaretta, Syamak Farajikhah, Fariba Dehghani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
wiley   +1 more source

Clostridioides difficile concentration-dependant alterations in gut microbiota of asymptomatic infants

Gut Pathogens
Background Asymptomatic carriage of Clostridioides difficile is highly prevalent in early infancy, affecting approximately 40% of infants. This phenomenon offers a unique opportunity to study its impact on the gut microbiota without the confounding ...
Aleksander Mahnic, Jana Lozar Krivec, Darja Paro-Panjan, Andreja Valcl, Tanja Obermajer, Bojana Bogovič Matijašić, Evgen Benedik, Petra Bratina, Maja Rupnik   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbiome Insights Into Zoonotic Risk at Wildlife–Human Interfaces in a Transitioning Landscape in Thailand

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study shows how ecological transitions, such as reforestation in Southeast Asia, reshape host–microbe–pathogen dynamics at the wildlife–domestic interface. By integrating long‐read microbiome sequencing, ecological gradients, and statistical and network analysis, we identify host species that disproportionately contribute to pathogen diversity and
Pauline Van Leeuwen, Chuanpot Thinphovong, Vincent Sluydts, Alix Nicolas, Anamika Kritiyakan, Areeya Kriengudom, Pipat Soisook, Kittipong Chaisiri, Serge Morand, Johan Michaux   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source