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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 [PDF]
Archives of Public HealthBackground 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 +4 more
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Uncovering the Harms of Treating Clostridioides difficile Colonization
mSphere, 2021 Patients with toxin-negative Clostridioides ...
Christopher R. Polage +1 more
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MedicinaBackground and Objectives: Clostridioides difficile infection is a major public health issue, being among the main causes of mortality due to healthcare-associated diarrhea.
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Clostridioides difficile Biofilm
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), previously Clostridium difficile infection, is a symptomatic infection of the large intestine caused by the spore-forming anaerobic, gram-positive bacterium Clostridioides difficile. CDI is an important healthcare-associated disease worldwide, characterized by high levels of recurrence, morbidity, and mortality.
Vuotto, C. +3 more
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Epidemiological characteristics of infections caused by bacteria Clostridioides difficile toxins [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno LekarstvoIntroduction/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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Current and future approaches in Clostridioides Difficile management [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Clostridioides Difficile is considered one of the main causes of the healthcare associated infections worldwide and the main cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, with forms of clinical disease ranging from mild to deadly.
George Sebastian Gherlan
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A Review of Therapies for Clostridioides difficile Infection
AntibioticsClostridioides difficile is an urgent public health threat that affects approximately half a million patients annually in the United States. Despite concerted efforts aimed at the prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), it remains a ...
Faiza Morado, Neha Nanda
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Infective Endocarditis by Clostridioides and Clostridium Species—A Narrative Review
Antibiotics, 2023 Bacteria of the genus Clostridium are anaerobic Gram-positive spore-forming bacilli that include more than 200 species. Some of them are known to cause invasive infections and diseases caused by the production of toxins.
Petros Ioannou +4 more
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International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2021 Clostridioides difficile is a Gram positive spore-forming rod and mainly responsible for nosocomial diarrhea in developed nations. Molecular and antimicrobial surveillance is important for monitoring the strain composition including genotypes of high ...
Ahmed Mohamed Mostafa Abdrabou +9 more
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Clostridioides difficile [PDF]
Trends in Microbiology, 2018 Clostridioides difficile is a spore-forming, anaerobic, intestinal pathogen that causes severe diarrhea that can lead to death. In 2011, C. difficile infected ∼500000 people in the USA and killed ∼29000 people. C. difficile infection (CDI) is the most common healthcare-related infection in the USA, leading to increased healthcare costs of $4.8 billion.
Brindar K, Sandhu, Shonna M, McBride
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