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Clostridium difficile infection. [PDF]

open access: yesNature 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.
A Antunes   +255 more
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Clostridium difficile infection

open access: yesAutopsy and Case Reports, 2014
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a significant and increasing medical problem, surpassing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as the most common hospital-onset or facility-associated infection, and a key element in the challenging battle ...
Stephen A. Geller   +1 more
doaj   +7 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
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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
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Diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile in patients with postoperative subhepatic abscess [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2008
Background. Toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile in the majority of cases cause disease of the intestinal tract of hospitalized patients. For a long time, Clostridium difficile was considered to produce both types of toxins (A+/B+ strain), however,
Stojanović Predrag, Kocić Branislava
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Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]

open access: yesMedical 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   +1 more
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2008
Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-producing anaerobe [1] responsible for approximately 50–70% of gastrointestinal infections in hospitalized patients [2, 3]. An episode of C. difficile infection (CDI) is defined as a clinical picture compatible with CDI (i.
Kuipers, Ernst, Surawicz, CM
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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

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
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Clostridium difficile Infection

open access: yesClinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 2015
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) affects a broad population and has become so widespread the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rated C. difficile as an urgent threat in 2013.1, 2 Recent basic-science research has focused on understanding the pathogenesis of the disease and alterations in the microbiome causing susceptibility.
Dale N. Gerding, Vincent B. Young
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]

open access: yesNursing Older People, 2010
Clostridium difficile can be cultured from the stool of 3 per cent of healthy adults but most people remain asymptomatic. Clinical disease develops when normal gut flora is disrupted, usually by antibiotic exposure, thereby creating conditions that favour C. difficile proliferation in the colon. Gastrointestinal diseases associated with C.
Latisha, Heinlen, Jimmy D, Ballard
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