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Identification of a novel zinc metalloprotease through a global analysis of clostridium difficile extracellular proteins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Clostridium difficile is a major cause of infectious diarrhea worldwide. Although the cell surface proteins are recognized to be important in clostridial pathogenesis, biological functions of only a few are known.
Maria Scarselli (247406)   +39 more
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The role of hospital environment and the hands of medical staff in the transmission of the Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection

open access: yesMedycyna Pracy, 2019
This paper attempts to determine the role of the hospital environment in the spread of Clostridioides/Clostridium (C.) difficile infections based on a review of studies published in the medical literature and in the light of the authors’ own ...
Monika Kabała   +2 more
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Characteristics of patients infected with Clostridioides difficile at a Saudi Tertiary Academic Medical Center and assessment of antibiotic duration

open access: yesGut Pathogens, 2021
Background Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a common hospital-associated diarrhea. Several antibiotics commonly associate with CDI; however, limited data are available on the duration of exposure prior to CDI.
Khadijah M. Alammari, Abrar K. Thabit
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Managing Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +5 more
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Clostridioides difficile Infection in Liver Cirrhosis: A Concise Review

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022
Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive bacillus with fecal-oral transmission and is currently one of the most common nosocomial infections worldwide, which was renamed Clostridioides difficile in 2016.
Yuanbin Liu, Mingkai Chen
doaj   +1 more source

The Trend of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Korean Hospitals with the Analysis of Nationwide Sample Cohort

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical Microbiology, 2020
배경: Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile는 항균제를 복용한 환자에서 설사를 동반하는 질환을 일으키는 중요한 병원감염균이지만 국내 감염의 현황은 잘 알려져 있지 않다.방법: 장기간의 국내 C. difficile 감염 추이를 국민건강보험공단의 표본코호트를 이용하여 분석하였다. 분석에는 사회경제적 변수, 질병 중증도 및 의료기관 특성을 포함하였다.결과: C. difficile 감염률은 2006년 0.030%에서 2015년
강주 손, 영아 김, 윤수 박
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Negative interactions determine Clostridioides difficile growth in synthetic human gut communities

open access: yesMolecular Systems Biology, 2021
Understanding the principles of colonization resistance of the gut microbiome to the pathogen Clostridioides difficile will enable the design of defined bacterial therapeutics.
Susan Hromada   +7 more
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Clostridioides difficile Infection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This book collects multidisciplinary research articles focused on Clostridioides difficile infection. The contributions collected here shed some light on grey areas of our knowledge of Clostridioides difficile, including regional Clostridioides difficile

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Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated clostridium difficile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Epidemic C. difficile (027/BI/NAP1) has rapidly emerged in the past decade as the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide. However, the key events in evolutionary history leading to its emergence and the subsequent patterns of global ...
Hawkey, P.r   +154 more
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Clostridioides difficile Activates Human Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) causes severe inflammatory responses at the intestinal mucosa but the immunological mechanisms underlying CDI-related immunopathology are still incompletely characterized.
Isabel Bernal   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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