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Clostridium difficile infection
Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2017Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the main cause of nosocomial diarrhea in industrialized countries and the source of a growing number of cases of diarrhea in the community. The outbreak of the hypervirulent strain belonging to ribotype 027 has increased the incidence and severity of CDI in some countries.
Luis, Alcalá Hernández +2 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 1996The spore-forming anaerobe Clostridium difficile has become a serious enteropathogen. Changes in the composition of natural intestinal flora, mainly due to antibiotic therapy, permit its colonization of, and multiplication in, the colon. The disease is caused by (entero)toxin A and (cyto)toxin B, and infection ranges from asymptomatic carrier state and
Dieter H. M. Gröschel, B. Toye
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CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLI INFECTION
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1975A case of human Clostridium sordelli soft tissue infection is presented. Analysis of this patient's course led to the use of a mouse experimental model for examination of this organism's potential for toxin production. Data thus obtained correlated with that seen in this instance of human infection, indicates that the lethal effects of this organism ...
D A, Browdie +4 more
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Clostridium difficileInfection
New England Journal of Medicine, 2015This article reviews the pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this nosocomial and potentially fatal infectious diarrhea, as well as the associated risk factors. New treatments include fecal microbiota transplantation for disease that is resistant to vancomycin.
Sam K, Sharma +2 more
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CNS Infection with Clostridium septicum
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2000We present an unusual case of Clostridium septicum brain infection in a 72-yr-old woman who had no underlying malignant disease. The infection spread from a localized sit to the CNS causing gas formation. The patient died rapidly.
Dirks, C. +3 more
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Update on Clostridium difficile infections
Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses, 2014Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) occur primarily in hospitalized patients with risk factors such as concomitant or recent use of antibiotics. CDI related additional costs are important for the global population and health-care facilities. CDI epidemiology has changed since 2003: they became more frequent boosted by large outbreaks, more severe ...
Le Monnier, A., Zahar, J.-R., Barbut, F.
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Clostridium perfringens and foodborne infections
International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2002Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning is one of the more common in the industrialised world. This bacterium is also responsible for the rare but severe food borne necrotic enteritis. C. perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) has been shown to be the virulence factor responsible for causing the symptoms of C. perfringens type A food poisoning.
Sigrid, Brynestad, Per Einar, Granum
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Clostridium difficile infection in Thailand
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2015Clostridium difficile is the aetiological agent in ca. 20% of cases of antimicrobial-associated diarrhoea in hospitalised adults. Diseases caused by this organism range from mild diarrhoea to occasional fatal pseudomembranous colitis. The epidemiology of C.
Papanin Putsathit +3 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection in the Elderly
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2014Clostridium difficile-associated illness is an increasingly prevalent and morbid condition. The elderly population is at a disproportionate risk of developing symptomatic disease and associated complications, including progression to severe or fulminant disease, and development of recurrent infections. This article analyzes the factors that influence C
Jonathan M, Keller +1 more
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Clostridium difficile infection in diabetes
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2014Diabetes-related hospitalization and hospital utilization is a serious challenge to the health care system, a situation which may be further aggravated by nosocomial Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI). Studies have demonstrated that diabetes increases the risk of recurrent CDI with OR (95% CI) 2.99 (1.88, 4.76). C. difficile is a gram-
Hui-Qi, Qu, Zhi-Dong, Jiang
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