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Antibiotic Associated Diarrhea in Hospitalized Adult Patients [PDF]

The 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 ...
Aulia, D. (Diana), Chen, L. K. (Lie), Simadibrata, M. (Marcellus), Timan, I. S. (Ina)   +3 more
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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]

BMC 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.
Alexander Rösler, Daniel Kopf, Klaus Nissle   +2 more
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Case report of clostridium difficile infection after rectal resection with ileostomy. [PDF]

World J Surg Oncol
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, with high incidence and mortality rates. Surgical resection is the primary treatment for rectal cancer.
Guo H, Jiang H, Liu H.
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Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridioides difficile in Germany, 2014–2019

International 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, Zia Ul Habib Bajwa, Alexander Halfmann, Alexander Mellmann, Anna Nimmesgern, Lena Margardt, Markus Bischoff, Lutz von Müller, Barbara Gärtner, Fabian K. Berger   +9 more
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Assessment of the Effect of Multidrug Resistance Clostridium difficile Clinical Strains on the Dynamics of Clostridium difficile Infection Rate at Pediatric Oncological Hospital

Эпидемиология 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, A. M. Zatevalov, D. T. Dzhandarova, S. D. Mitrokhin, O. E. Orlova   +4 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]

Medical Clinics of North America, 2013
Clostridium difficile is emerging as a common cause of infectious diarrhea. Incidence has increased dramatically since 2000, associated with a new strain that features both increased toxin production and increased resistance to antibiotics. For patients with mild to moderate disease, oral metronidazole is usually the first choice of treatment, and ...
Christopher L, Knight, Christina M, Surawicz   +1 more
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2016
Infection of the colon with the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium difficile is potentially life threatening, especially in elderly people and in patients who have dysbiosis of the gut microbiota following antimicrobial drug exposure. C. difficile is the leading cause of health-care-associated infective diarrhoea. The life cycle of C.
Smits, W.K., Lyras, D., Lacy, D.B., Wilcox, M.H., Kuijper, E.J.   +4 more
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Susceptibility of hamsters to clostridium difficile isolates of differing toxinotype [PDF]

, 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, Anthony M. Buckley, B Elliott, C Rousseau, C Schwan, D Drudy, D Goulding, D Lyras, Denise Candlish, DM Guerrero, F Miyajima, Gillian R. Douce, H Huang, H Kim, H Kim, I Duerden, I Vesteinsdottir, J Andrews, J Kim, J Ng, J Pépin, J Wang, Janice Spencer, JG Bartlett, JM Lanis, June J. Irvine, JW Marsh, LA Petrella, Lindsay M. Maclellan, LJ Deakin, M Arvand, M He, M Merrigan, M Rupnik, MH Wilcox, MH Wilcox, Michel R. Popoff, MM Nerandzic, MSM Brouwer, N Razaq, N Stoesser, P Vohra, R Stabler, R Stabler, S Kamiya, S Kuehne, SA Villano, SP Sambol, SP Sambol, ST Cartman, TS Steiner, V Braun, V Casas, Y Ogura   +53 more
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Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridioides difficile detected in chicken, soil and human samples from Zimbabwe

International 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, Alexander Mellmann, Markus Bischoff, Lutz von Müller, Sören L. Becker, Clifford Simango, Barbara Gärtner   +6 more
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Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2020
Importance: An understanding of the incidence and outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the United States can inform investments in prevention and treatment interventions.
Balkenende, Erin, Blevins, Amy E., Chiang, Hsiu-Yin, Chorazy, Margaret L., Diekema, Daniel J., Herwaldt, Loreen A., Khader, Karim, Kuxhausen, Michelle F., Marra, Alexandre R., McDanel, Jennifer S., Nair, Rajeshwari, Nelson, Richard E., Perencevich, Eli N., Samore, Matthew, Schweizer, Marin L., Ward, Melissa A.   +15 more
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