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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.
Wiep Klaas Smits +2 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 +1 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2010 Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in Europe and North America and is a serious reemerging pathogen. Recent outbreaks have led to increasing morbidity and mortality and have been associated with a new strain (BI/NAP1/027) of C difficile that produces more toxin than historic strains.
Latisha, Heinlen, Jimmy D, Ballard
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2008 Clostridium difficile is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive anaerobic bacterium which produces spores that enable it to survive in the environment for prolonged periods (Fig 1). Although first isolated in 1935, it was identified as the causal agent of antibiotic associated diarrhoea and pseudomembranous colitis only in the 1970s. C.
Clark, Tristan, Wiselka, Martin
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Short-term genome stability of serial Clostridium difficile ribotype 027 isolates in an experimental gut model and recurrent human disease [PDF]
, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Eyre et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source ...
Baines, Simon D. +10 more
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Clostridium difficile infection
Autopsy 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 against hospital-acquired infections.
Stephen A. Geller +1 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 +15 more
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The burden of clostridium difficile infection in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2019 Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) has registered a dramatically increasing incidence in the general population over the past decades. Nowadays, Clostridium Difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in Europe and North America ...
Dumitru, Andrada +5 more
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Laboratorium Diagnosis of Clostridium Difficile Infection [PDF]
, 2006 Clostridium difficile is the most important cause of antibiotic associated diarrhea, and pseudomembranous colitis, a severe infection of the colon.
Legoh, G. N. (Grace) +1 more
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Clostridium difficile infections in China [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Research, 2010 Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection has become one of the major hospital-associated infections in Western countries in the last two decades. However, there is limited information on the status of C. difficile infection in Chinese healthcare settings.
Jin, Ke +3 more
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