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Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2022 Introduction: Clostridioides difficile is the main cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea in Europe and North America. The aim of this study was to characterize the epidemiology and clinical burden of Clostridioides difficile infection among ...
Cláudia Nazareth +14 more
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Phage therapy for Clostridioides difficile infection
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Clostridioides difficile is endemic in the intestinal tract of healthy people. However, it is responsible for many healthcare-associated infections, such as nosocomial diarrhea following antibiotic treatment. Importantly, there have been cases of unsuccessful treatment and relapse related to the emergence of highly virulent strains of C.
Kosuke Fujimoto +3 more
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Diagnostic Methods of Clostridioides difficile Infection and Clostridioides difficile Ribotypes in Studied Sample [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2021 Background: Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile is the most common nosocomial pathogen and antibiotic-related diarrhea in health-care facilities. Over the last few years, there was an increase in the incidence rate of C. difficile infection cases in Slovakia.
Elena Novakova +3 more
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Gut Microbes, 2021 Clostridioides difficile infection is currently the leading cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis worldwide. Cathelicidins, a major group of natural antimicrobial peptides, have antimicrobial and immunomodulatory
Banglao Xu, Xianan Wu, Yi Gong, Ju Cao
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Clostridioides difficile Infection [PDF]
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018 Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection is the most frequently identified health care-associated infection in the United States. C difficile has also emerged as a cause of community-associated diarrhea, resulting in increased incidence of community-associated infection.
Alice Guh, Preeta K. Kutty
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An Integrated Pipeline For Prediction of Clostridioides Difficile Infection [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract With the expansion of electronic health records(EHR)-linked genomic data comes the development of machine learning-enable models. There is a pressing need to develop robust pipelines to evaluate performance of integrated models and minimize systemic bias. We developed a prediction model of symptomatic Clostridioides difficile infection(
Jiang Li +8 more
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Faecal transplantation and Clostridioides difficile infection [PDF]
Scripta Medica, 2021 Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), known equally well as faecal transplantation or faecal bacteriotherapy, is the process of implanting the faecal suspension containing balanced microbiota from a healthy donor to the colon of a recipient patient.
A Darija Knežević, Miroslav Petković
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Clostridioides difficile infection possesses a significant economical burden, specifically in the inpatient and rural settings. Fecal Microbiota Transplant has been used for treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile but its utility is limited by ...
Krishna Vedala +3 more
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Costs Associated with the Treatment of Clostridioides Difficile Infections [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Background: Clostridioides difficile, as the main cause of infectious diarrhoea in hospitalised patients, is a considerable challenge for medical personnel (hospital environment) who have direct contact with the patient, as well as being of interest to public health specialists.
Aleksandra Sierocka +3 more
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Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection [PDF]
Critical Care Nurse, 2019 Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection is among the most identified causes of health care-associated infections in US hospitals and remains a major public health problem. The incidence and severity of C difficile infection are high among critically ill patients.
Stephanie Quist +4 more
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