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Risk factors for infection in HIV-infected patients
SAGE Open Medicine, 2016 Background: Clostridium difficile infection is a healthcare-associated infection resulting in significant morbidity. Although immunosuppression is associated with Clostridium difficile infection acquisition and adverse outcomes, the epidemiology of ...
Hannah Imlay, Daniel Kaul, Krishna Rao
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Balkan Medical Journal, 2018 Aims: To investigate the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Romanian hospitals. Methods: A survey was conducted at nine hospitals throughout Romania between November 2013 and February 2014.
Gabriel Adrian Popescu +8 more
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Extraintestinal Clostridium difficile Infections [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2013 Clostridium difficile causes diarrhea that ranges from a benign, self-limiting antibiotic use-associated disease to a life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. Clostridium difficile has rarely been isolated in extraintestinal infections. Our objective was to characterize clinical features and risk factors of these infections.
Mattila Eero +11 more
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Probiotics in Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2011 Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most prevalent nosocomial infections. A dramatic increase in the incidence and severity of CDI has been noted in the past decade. Current recommendations suggest metronidazole as first-line therapy in mild to moderately severe CDI and oral vancomycin in individuals with severe CDI, or when ...
Xi, Na, Ciaran, Kelly
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019 Background Hospitalization and antibiotic treatment can put patients at high risk for Clostridium difficile infection, where a disturbance of the gut microbiome allows for Clostridium difficile proliferation and associated symptoms, including mild ...
Maureen Hitschfeld +8 more
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Excess Mortality Attributable to Clostridium difficile and Risk Factors for Infection in an Historic Cohort of Hospitalised Patients Followed Up in the United Kingdom Death Register. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 METHODS:We compared time from hospital admission to death in a probability sample of 100 Clostridium difficile infected cases and a probability sample of 98 non-cases admitted to an English teaching hospital between 2005 and 2007 with follow up in the UK
Mark Reacher +6 more
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Infections caused by Clostridium difficile in cancer patients
Сибирский онкологический журнал, 2019 The purpose of the study was to determine the role of antibiotics as a risk factor of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in hospitalized cancer patients.Material and Methods. The study included 844 hospitalized cancer patients with diarrhea.
I. A. Klyuchnikova +5 more
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The association between histamine 2 receptor antagonist use and Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
, 2013 Background Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a major health problem. Epidemiological evidence suggests that there is an association between acid suppression therapy and development of CDI.
Sutton, AJ +73 more
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Role of Microbiota and Innate Immunity in Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
Journal of Immunology Research, 2014 Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection represents a burdensome clinical issue whose epidemiology is increasing worldwide. The pathogenesis is not yet completely known.
Stefano Bibbò +5 more
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Antibiotic Associated Diarrhea in Hospitalized Adult Patients
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 ...
Marcellus Simadibrata +3 more
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