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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.
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Extraintestinal Clostridium difficile Infections [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1996 SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics ...
Byl, Baudouin +3 more
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Clostridium difficile infection: review [PDF]
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2019 Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacillus, which is widely distributed in the intestinal tract of humans and animals and in the environment. In the last decade, the frequency and severity of C.
J. Czepiel +9 more
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Clostridium infections associated with musculoskeletal-tissue allografts. [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 M. Kainer +6 more
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Clostridium difficile infection: appendix [PDF]
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1998 M. H. Wilcox
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]
The 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.
Christina M. Surawicz, Ernst J. Kuipers
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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 ...
Christina M. Surawicz +1 more
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Effect of Clostridium butyricum on Gastrointestinal Infections
Biomedicines, 2022 Clostridium butyricum is a human commensal bacterium with beneficial effects including butyrate production, spore formation, increasing levels of beneficial bacteria, and inhibition of pathogenic bacteria. Owing to its preventive and ameliorative effects
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Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]
Nursing 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.
Jimmy D. Ballard, Latisha Heinlen
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IDCases, 2021 Clostridium paraputrificum is an extremely rare species and constitutes only 1% of all clostridium infections in literature. Septic arthritis from Clostridium paraputrificum is even less documented, and currently there is only one known case report ...
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