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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.
Per Einar Granum, Sigrid Brynestad
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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 ...
Frédéric Barbut +2 more
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Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infections
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2015Vancomycin and metronidazole were historically considered equivalent therapies for the management of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI); however, recent data confirm more favorable outcomes with vancomycin. Fidaxomicin is a narrow spectrum antibiotic that has an advantage in reducing recurrence rates compared with vancomycin, possibly owing to its ...
Stuart Johnson, Melinda M. Soriano
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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
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 2003Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming gram positive anaerobic bacillus that is part of the normal faecal flora of about 3% of healthy adults. Colonization rates may be much higher than that in hospitalized patients and in newborns. It can occur at any age, but elderly adults and debilitated patients are most susceptible to disease. In such patients,
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Antibiotic resistance in the patient with cancer: Escalating challenges and paths forward
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021Amila K Nanayakkara +2 more
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Urinary tract infections: epidemiology, mechanisms of infection and treatment options
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015Ana L Flores-Mireles +2 more
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Implant infections: adhesion, biofilm formation and immune evasion
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018Carla Renata Arciola +2 more
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Persistent bacterial infections and persister cells
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017Robert A Fisher, Sophie Helaine
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