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Asymptomatic and yet C. difficile-toxin positive? Prevalence and risk factors of carriers of toxigenic Clostridium difficile among geriatric in-patients [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2016
Background Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are the most frequent cause of diarrhoea in hospitals. Geriatric patients are more often affected by the condition, by a relapse and complications.
Klaus Nissle   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Antibiotic Associated Diarrhea in Hospitalized Adult Patients [PDF]

open access: yesThe Indonesian Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Digestive Endoscopy, 2018
Background: Antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD) occurs from the first initiation until 2 months of the end of antibiotic treatment. The aims of this study were to know the incidence of AAD, Clostridium difficile infection and other gastrointestinal ...
Marcellus Simadibrata   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Para-cresol production by Clostridium difficile affects microbial diversity and membrane integrity of Gram-negative bacteria [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Pathogens, 2018
Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe and a major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Disruption of the commensal microbiota, such as through treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, is a critical precursor for ...
Baines, Simon D   +12 more
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Clostridium Difficile

open access: yesNepalese Medical Journal, 2018
Clostridium difficile ; a group of spore forming, toxin forming, gram positive anerobel is implicated in hospital associated diarrhea and is the causative agent of infectious diarrhea.
Sushil Adhikari
doaj   +2 more sources

Genomic Delineation of Zoonotic Origins of Clostridium difficile [PDF]

open access: goldFrontiers in Public Health, 2019
Clostridium difficile is toxin-producing antimicrobial resistant (AMR) enteropathogen historically associated with diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis in hospitalized patients.
Daniel R. Knight, Thomas V. Riley
openalex   +2 more sources

Case report of clostridium difficile infection after rectal resection with ileostomy [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgical Oncology
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, with high incidence and mortality rates. Surgical resection is the primary treatment for rectal cancer.
Hongwei Guo, Huiyuan Jiang, Haiyi Liu
doaj   +2 more sources

Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridioides difficile in Germany, 2014–2019

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the Effect of Multidrug Resistance Clostridium difficile Clinical Strains on the Dynamics of Clostridium difficile Infection Rate at Pediatric Oncological Hospital

open access: yesЭпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2021
Relevance. At the children's oncological hospital guidelines to treat patients with several groups of antibiotics at the same time, which ensures the formation of multi-resistant strains of Clostridium difficile, which have a selective advantage for the ...
M. G. Shvydkaya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Susceptibility of hamsters to clostridium difficile isolates of differing toxinotype [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Clostridium difficile is the most commonly associated cause of antibiotic associated disease (AAD), which caused ~21,000 cases of AAD in 2011 in the U.K. alone.
A Buckley   +53 more
core   +17 more sources

Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridioides difficile detected in chicken, soil and human samples from Zimbabwe

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background: Clostridioides difficile is the major cause of infectious nosocomial diarrhoea in industrialized nations. Data on the occurrence of C. difficile in Africa, ribotype (RT) distribution, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and potential ...
Fabian K. Berger   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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