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Extraintestinal Clostridium difficile Infections [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1996 SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics ...
B. Byl +3 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]
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.
Smits, W.K. +4 more
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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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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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Clostridium difficile Infection
Clinical 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 +2 more
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Clostridium difficile: An Important Opportunistic Pathogen in Healthcare-Associated Infections
EDIS, 2018 Healthcare-associated infections are infections that patients can get while receiving medical treatment in a healthcare facility. One opportunistic pathogen, Clostridium difficile, has been getting more attention in recent years because of its ...
Soohyoun Ahn, Amarat Simonne
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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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Outcomes of intrahospital antimicrobial stewardship programs related to prevention of Clostridium difficile infection outbreaks [PDF]
Medicinski Glasnik, 2018 Aim To synthesize evidence about the influence of individual antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) related to the prevention of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection on primary and secondary outcomes.
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