Restrictive antibiotic stewardship associated with reduced hospital mortality in gram-negative infection [PDF]
Introduction: Antimicrobial stewardship has an important role in the control of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and antibiotic resistance. An important component of UK stewardship interventions is the restriction of broad-spectrum beta-lactam ...
Helps, Alieen +5 more
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Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Outbreaks of communicable diseases in hospitals need to be quickly detected in order to enable immediate control. The increasing digitalization of hospital data processing offers potential solutions for automated outbreak detection systems
Aghdassi, Seven Johannes Sam +9 more
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Fecal Microbial Transplantation For Diseases Beyond Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection.
As microbiome research has moved from associative to mechanistic studies, the activities of specific microbes and their products have been investigated in development of inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and neuropsychiatric ...
G. D'Haens, C. Jobin
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising candidates for next‐generation antibiotics, acting through mechanisms such as membrane disruption and intracellular targeting. This review examines how variations in bacterial membrane composition critically influence AMP activity.
Paolo Rossetti +5 more
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Cryptococcid Sweet Syndrome in the Setting of Hydralazine‐Induced ANCA Vasculitis: A Case Report
ABSTRACT Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, also known as Sweet syndrome, is an inflammatory skin condition characterized by the rapid onset of painful, erythematous plaques or nodules with neutrophilic infiltrate on histology. Rarely, acellular bodies surrounded by vacuolated spaces have been noted within the neutrophilic infiltrate, mimicking ...
Jenna Vroman +4 more
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Background Surotomycin, a novel, orally administered, cyclic, lipopeptide antibacterial in development for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, has demonstrated minimal intestinal absorption in animal models.
Gurudatt Chandorkar +4 more
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Effects of Clostridium difficile on the human immune response [PDF]
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that is rapidly becoming a large issue in the medical community due to its tendency to infect hospital patients and its resistance to antibiotics.
McGovern, Mike
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Effects of co-infection on the clinical outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]
Background: Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming, Gram-positive rod that is known to be associated with antibiotic use. It is one of the leading causes of nosocomial diarrhea in the industrialized world and therefore warrants further ...
Alturkmani, Hani +6 more
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Clostridium difficile infection among veterans health administration patients [PDF]
OBJECTIVETo report on the prevalence and incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) from 2009 to 2013 among Veterans Healthcare Administration patientsDESIGNA retrospective descriptive analysis of data extracted from a large electronic medical ...
Dubberke, Erik R +8 more
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Clostridium difficile infection and antibiotic-associated diarrhoea
Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea is among the most common adverse events related to antibiotic use. Most cases are mild, but Clostridium difficile infection causes a spectrum of disease, ranging from occasional diarrhoea to colitis, toxic megacolon, and ...
B. Mullish, H. Williams
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