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My Treatment Approach to Clostridioides difficile Infection [PDF]

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2021
Clostridioides difficile infection is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitals with an increasing incidence in the community. Clinical presentation of C difficile infection ranges from diarrhea manageable in the outpatient setting to fulminant infection requiring intensive care admission.
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Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Pacemaker Infection [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020
Abstract Clostridioides difficile is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated nosocomial diarrhea, but extra-intestinal manifestations are rare. We describe the first documented case of bacteraemia with pacemaker pocket and lead infection with the toxigenic C. difficile ribotype 014 with a lack of abdominal symptoms.
Kathrin Rothe, Anatol Prinzing, Dirk H. Busch, Dirk H. Busch, Barbara Gärtner, Fabian K. Berger, Anna Berkefeld, Nina Wantia, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz   +8 more
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Imaging of Abdominal Complications in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common paediatric malignancy and remains one of the most common causes of cancer‐related death in children and adolescents. Five‐year overall survival rates now exceed 90% with current multidrug chemotherapeutic regimens. This improvement, coupled with the toxicity of chemotherapy, has led to the
Luke R. Holmes, Rishi S. Kotecha, Derek J. Roebuck   +2 more
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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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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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Clostridioides difficile exploits toxin-mediated inflammation to alter the host nutritional landscape and exclude competitors from the gut microbiota

Nature Communications, 2021
The effects of antibiotics on the gut microbiota can lead to enhanced colonization of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) and toxin-mediated pathogenesis.
Joshua R. Fletcher, Colleen M. Pike, Ruth J. Parsons, Alissa J. Rivera, Matthew H. Foley, Michael R. McLaren, Stephanie A. Montgomery, Casey M. Theriot   +7 more
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Extraintestinal Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI): A Recurrent Battle with Resilient Abdominal Wall Abscess

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2023
Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection is a common and costly healthcare-associated infection. Extraintestinal C. difficile infection is rarely encountered, especially in isolation.
Justine Chinnappan, Murtaza Hussain, Dominic Awuah, Ekwevugbe Ogbon, Ghassan Bachuwa, Philip McDonald   +5 more
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Diversity and Dosage Determine the Efficacy of the Probiotic SYN‐53 in Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis: A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial

Allergy, EarlyView.
The probiotic food supplement SYN‐53 has previously shown efficacy in managing allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC), with its high bacterial diversity and dosage hypothesized as key drivers. This study on 166 subjects aimed to confirm this hypothesis by comparing the effects of SYN‐53, a low dose variant (SYN‐53‐LD), a low diversity variant (SYN‐4), and ...
Karl‐Christian Bergmann, Torsten Zuberbier   +1 more
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Whole genome sequence analysis reveals limited diversity among Clostridioides difficile ribotype 027 and 078 isolates collected in 22 hospitals in Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Background Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) present significant health risks and are among the most important nosocomial infections. Ribotype (RT) 027 poses a particular risk due to its proposed “hypervirulence”. Traditionally, C.
Esther E. Dirks, Vanessa Pfiffer, Genevieve Sohl, Fabian K. Berger, Ina Friesen, Johannes Friesen, Ralf Ignatius, Johannes Elias, Alexander Mellmann, Mardjan Arvand   +9 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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