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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, Kosuke Fujimoto, Satoshi Uematsu, Satoshi Uematsu   +3 more
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Clostridioides Difficile Enteritis: Case Report and Literature Review

Antibiotics, 2022
Background: Clostridioides Difficile is a well-known pathogen causing diarrhea of various degrees of severity through associated infectious colitis.
Artsiom Klimko, Cristian George Tieranu, Ana-Maria Curte, Carmen Monica Preda, Ioana Tieranu, Andrei Ovidiu Olteanu, Elena Mirela Ionescu   +6 more
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In Vitro Activity of Omadacycline and Five Comparators against Contemporary Ribotypes of Clostridioides difficile in Stockholm, Sweden

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Clostridioides difficile infection represents a growing clinical challenge. The new compound omadacycline is a potential treatment alternative, as many antibiotics have limited activity or are rarely used due to costs and side effects.
Angela Camporeale, Chaitanya Tellapragada, Jelena Kornijenko, Carl Erik Nord, Christian G. Giske   +4 more
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Hospital Infection Control: Clostridioides difficile

Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2020
Abstract Clostridioides difficile remains a leading cause of healthcare-associated infection. Efforts at C. difficile prevention have been hampered by an increasingly complex understanding of transmission patterns and a high degree of heterogeneity among existing studies. Effective prevention of C.
Turner, Nicholas A, Anderson, Deverick J
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Protection from Lethal Clostridioides difficile Infection via Intraspecies Competition for Cogerminant

mBio, 2021
Antibiotic-associated colitis is often caused by infection with the bacterium Clostridioides difficileC ...
Jhansi L. Leslie, Matthew L. Jenior, Kimberly C. Vendrov, Alexandra K. Standke, Madeline R. Barron, Tricia J. O’Brien, Lavinia Unverdorben, Pariyamon Thaprawat, Ingrid L. Bergin, Patrick D. Schloss, Vincent B. Young   +10 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.
Christina, Clarkin, Stephanie, Quist, Renata, Shamis, Amber E, King, Bhavik M, Shah   +4 more
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Outbreak of Clostridioides difficile infection in Silesian district hospital

Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis, 2023
INTRODUCTION: In order to evaluate a Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) outbreak between December 2018 and February 2019 in the internal medicine ward of a district hospital in Silesia, 6 stools from 5 patients were examined.
Klaudia T. Szarek, Monika A. Kabała, Krzysztof Sacha, Franciszek Drzymała, Adam Borek, Monika Pomorska-Wesołowska, Małgorzata Aptekorz, Gayane Martirosian   +7 more
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Effective Dosage of Oral Vancomycin in Treatment for Initial Episode of Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Antibiotics, 2019
Background: Oral vancomycin is a first line treatment for an initial episode of Clostridioides difficile infection. However, the comparative efficacy of different dosing regimens is lacking evidence in the current literature. Methods: We searched PubMed,
Chia-Yu Chiu, Amara Sarwal, Addi Feinstein, Karen Hennessey   +3 more
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Clostridioides difficile Infection

RGUHS Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
In the past decade Clostrdioides difficile has become a leading enteric pathogen causing antibiotic-associated diarrohoea and colitis. The manifestations range from diarrhoea to life-threatening damage to the large intestine. It is noted as a nosocomial and community acquired infection in most of the countries including India.
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Freeze-dried fecal samples are biologically active after long-lasting storage and suited to fecal microbiota transplantation in a preclinical murine model of Clostridioides difficile infection

Gut Microbes, 2020
Fecal microbiota transplantation is now recommended for treating recurrent forms of Clostridioides difficile infection. Recent studies have reported protocols using capsules of either frozen or freeze-dried stool allowing oral administration in in- and ...
Julie Reygner, Christine Charrueau, Johanne Delannoy, Camille Mayeur, Véronique Robert, Céline Cuinat, Thierry Meylheuc, Aurélie Mauras, Jérémy Augustin, Ioannis Nicolis, Morgane Modoux, Francisca Joly, Anne-Judith Waligora-Dupriet, Muriel Thomas, Nathalie Kapel   +14 more
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