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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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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.
Christoph Lübbert +2 more
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Extra-intestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2001 The objective of this paper was to investigate the incidence of extra-intestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile. During a 10-year period, the microbiology laboratory of our institution isolated 2034 isolates of C. difficile.
T Peláez, L Alcalà, Emilio Bouza
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Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2013 The incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile infections have increased over the past few decades. New challenges have developed in the treatment and prevention of both hospital- and community-acquired disease. As mentioned by Tamma and Sandora [ 1] in their recent review, many questions about C difficile management in children remain unanswered,
Kevin J, Downes, Samir S, Shah
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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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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 ...
Jordan Ciuro +3 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.
Kuipers, Ernst, Surawicz, CM
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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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Diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile in patients with postoperative subhepatic abscess [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2008 Background. Toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile in the majority of cases cause disease of the intestinal tract of hospitalized patients. For a long time, Clostridium difficile was considered to produce both types of toxins (A+/B+ strain), however,
Stojanović Predrag, Kocić Branislava
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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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