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Faecal microbiota transplantation : a regulatory hurdle? [PDF]

, 2017
During faecal microbiota transplantation, stool from a healthy donor is transplanted to treat a variety of dysbiosis-associated gut diseases. Competent authorities are faced with the challenge to provide adequate regulation.
De Spiegeleer, Bart, Janssens, Yorick, Verbeke, Frederick, Wynendaele, Evelien   +3 more
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The VirS/VirR two-component system regulates the anaerobic cytotoxicity, intestinal pathogenicity, and enterotoxemic lethality of Clostridium perfringens type C isolate CN3685. [PDF]

, 2011
Clostridium perfringens vegetative cells cause both histotoxic infections (e.g., gas gangrene) and diseases originating in the intestines (e.g., hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis or lethal enterotoxemia).
Ma, Menglin, McClane, Bruce A, Saputo, Juliann, Uzal, Francisco, Vidal, Jorge   +4 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, Tarkka Eveliina, Arkkila Perttu, Mattila Petri S., Tissari Päivi, Anttila Veli-Jukka, Mattila Eero, Tarkka Eveliina, Arkkila Perttu, Mattila Petri S., Tissari Päivi, Anttila Veli-Jukka   +11 more
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Dietary-based gut flora modulation against Clostridium difficile onset [PDF]

, 2007
Clostridium difficile infection is a frequent complication of antibiotic therapy in hospitalised patients, which today is attracting more attention than ever and has led to its classification as a 'superbug'.
Gibson, G.R., Gougoulias, C., Tuohy, K.M.   +2 more
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Laboratory data as a quality indicator of health-care-associated infections in England. [PDF]

, 2018
Routine diagnostic laboratory results, e.g. numbers of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemias, have been used as health-care-associated infection quality indicators for decades. The English health-care-associated infection quality
Jeyaratnam, D, Planche, T
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Botulism-like symptoms in an immunocompetent patient with Clostridium subterminale bacteremia

IDCases, 2018
Clostridium subterminale is a low virulence species of Clostridium that is an infrequent cause of human infections. We report a case of C. subterminale bacteremia in an immunocompetent patient who developed botulism-like symptoms.
Marytere Carrasquillo, Lisa L. Dever, Alexandra Sonyey   +2 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. difficile infection has been increasing worldwide to become one of the most common hospital-acquired infections.
Jacek Czepiel, Mirosław Dróżdż, Hanna Pituch, Ed J. Kuijper, William Perucki, Aleksandra Mielimonka, Sarah Goldman, Dorota Wultańska, Aleksander Garlicki, Grażyna Biesiada   +9 more
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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir, Andrew McAuley, CC McGuigan, CN Ramsay, Corinne Amar, D Akbulut, DJ Passaro, E MacDonald, E Tweed, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Gauri Godbole, Gillian Penrice, GY Chang, Health Protection Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD), J McLauchlin, J Sobel, J Strang, JA Jones, JA Stoltz, K Alpers, K Dunleavy, Kathie Grant, Kirsten M. A. Trayner, Kirsty Roy, M Desai, M Harris, M Ragonnet-Cronin, M Schroeter, MG Booth, N Markwick, National Records of Scotland, NE Palmateer, Public Health England, Health Protection Scotland, Public Health Wales, and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland, RJ Gordon, SB Werner, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Protection Network, SJ Hahné, SR Offerman, TN Wenham, VD Hope, VD Hope, Y Soukup-Baljak   +43 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF]

Workplace Health & Safety, 2017
Preventing Clostridium difficile, the most common cause of health care–associated infections in hospitals and infectious disease death in the United States, is a national priority. Increased rates of infection among low-risk individuals in the community call for community-based prevention efforts to halt the increasing spread of this highly contagious
Jennan A, Phillips, Stephanie, Hammond
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Bacteriemia por Clostridium sordellii en paciente con neoplasia gastrointestinal. Reporte de caso y revisión de literatura

Infectio, 2020
Clostridium sordellii bacteriemia is infrequent and usually comes from infections of gynecological and puerperal etiology, with mortality near 70%. There are few tools for rapid and timely diagnosis.
Juan Bravo-Ojeda
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