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Recommendations for the management of Clostridioides difficile infection in adults and comparison with updated ACG, ESCMID and IDSA/SHEA guidelines

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review
Clostridioides difficile infection is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. IDSA/SHEA, ESCMID and ACG updated the clinical practice guidelines for CDI in 2021. This paper is an attempt to summarize these guidelines.
Mateusz Piotr Baran, Jarosław Drobnik, Mária Belovičová, Štefánia Moricová, Piotr Pobrotyn   +4 more
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Mortality Attributable to Clostridioides difficile Infection: The Rising Burden of Disease in European Countries

Medicina
Background and Objectives: Clostridioides difficile infection is a major public health issue, being among the main causes of mortality due to healthcare-associated diarrhea.
Irena Ilic, Ivana Zivanovic Macuzic, Milena Ilic   +2 more
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The analysis of the epidemic status and risk factors associated with different genotypes Clostridioides difficile mixed infection

BMC Microbiology
Background Clostridioides difficile is the main pathogen of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous enteritis. Mixed Clostridioides difficile infection are simultaneous infection of the same host with strains of different genotypes. In recent
Yulian Zhang, Jing Yang, Honglian Wei, Jie Wang, Pu Qin, Qianqing Li, Cuixin Qiang, Jianhong Zhao   +7 more
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Prospective Review of Clostridioides difficile Testing Indications to Inform Local Laboratory Stewardship Initiatives

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2019
Summary: We conducted a prospective chart review to determine the prevalence of and reasons for inappropriate Clostridioides difficile test-ordering at a tertiary care hospital. Inappropriate orders accounted for 54% of all tests.
Noah Reich, Michael Payne, Azra Sharma, Sylvie Champagne, Marc G. Romney, Michelle Hinch, Victor Leung, Christopher F. Lowe   +7 more
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Clostridioides difficile co-infection with Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)—a potentially fatal combination

IDCases, 2020
There has been a significant increase in hospital and community acquired Clostridioides difficile infection in the past decade. In addition to CDI, the rate of infection with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) has also increased by 28% in United ...
Farah Deshmukh, Upasana Agrawal, Nancy Merrell   +2 more
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The Bacterial Gut Microbiota of Adult Patients Infected, Colonized or Noncolonized by Clostridioides difficile

Microorganisms, 2020
Gut microbiota composition in patients with Clostridioides difficile colonization is not well investigated. We aimed to identify bacterial signatures associated with resistance and susceptibility to C.
Monique J. T. Crobach, Quinten R. Ducarmon, Elisabeth M. Terveer, Celine Harmanus, Ingrid M. J. G. Sanders, Kees M. Verduin, Ed J. Kuijper, Romy D. Zwittink   +7 more
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Fecal microbiota transplantation in a patient hospitalized in the intensive care unit – Case report

Heliyon
Clostridioides difficile infections are difficult and serious problem occurring in patients staying in intensive care units. In recent years, the number and severity of these infections, as well as the mortality rate, have been increasing, posing a ...
Katarzyna Oliwa-Libumska, Aleksandra Jaworska-Czerwinska, Malgorzata Mallek-Grabowska, Robert Wlodarski, Przemyslaw Zuratynski, Bartosz Kozlowski   +5 more
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Epidemiological characteristics of infections caused by bacteria Clostridioides difficile toxins [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo
Introduction/Objective. Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common infectious agents and an important cause of infections among hospitalized patients, often resulting in severe and potentially fatal outcomes.
Koprivica Marko, Đekić-Malbaša Jelena
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Case report of two patients with recurrent watery stools following prophylactic ileostomy reversal after rectal cancer surgery

结直肠肛门外科
The causes of diarrhea after enterostomy reversal may be related to surgical treatment, and its severity varies. Clinical interventions are often based on the patient’s symptomatic presentation.
Shen Shuai, Gao Hui
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Incidence of hospital-acquired toxin-producing clostridioides difficile infection between the pre-pandemic (2017–2019) and pandemic (2020–2022): a retrospective cohort study

Archives of Public Health
Background In 2020, the World Health Organization declared SARS-CoV-2 a global public health emergency. Healthcare systems were forced to reorganize care delivery and implement wide-ranging infection control strategies. Among hospital-acquired infections,
Raquel García Rodríguez, María José Pereira Rodríguez, Alejandra Pilar García López, Fabián Freijedo Fariñas, Angela Nogueira Gómez   +4 more
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