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Strategies to Prevent Clostridium difficile Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2014
Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
E. Dubberke, P. Carling, R. Carrico, C. Donskey, V. Loo, L. McDonald, L. Maragakis, Thomas J. Sandora, D. Weber, D. Yokoe, D. Gerding   +10 more
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Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals [PDF]

, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Outbreaks of communicable diseases in hospitals need to be quickly detected in order to enable immediate control. The increasing digitalization of hospital data processing offers potential solutions for automated outbreak detection systems
Aghdassi, Seven Johannes Sam, Behnke, Michael, Gastmeier, Petra, Leistner, Rasmus, Peña Diaz, Luis Alberto, Piening, Brar, Pilarski, Georg, Rohde, Anna Maria, Schröder, Christin, Thoma, Norbert   +9 more
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Clostridium sporogenes bacteremia in an immunocompetent patient

IDCases, 2019
Of the 200 Clostridium spp. known to exist, approximately 30 have been associated with human disease. Commonly found in soil, marine sediment and mammalian intestinal tracts, these gram-positive bacilli are known to cause infections ranging from ...
Waiel Abusnina, Mena Shehata, Emhemmid Karem, Zeynep Koc, Elie Khalil   +4 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of pediatric and adult antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile infections.

World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2016
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) and Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) have been well studied for adult cases, but not as well in the pediatric population. Whether the disease process or response to treatments differs between pediatric and adult
L. Mcfarland, M. Ozen, E. Dinleyici, S. Goh   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hypoalbuminemia as Surrogate and Culprit of Infections

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
Hypoalbuminemia is associated with the acquisition and severity of infectious diseases, and intact innate and adaptive immune responses depend on albumin.
C. Wiedermann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Recent Emergence of Clostridium difficile Infection in Romanian Hospitals is Associated with a High Prevalence of Polymerase Chain Reaction Ribotype 027

Balkan Medical Journal, 2018
Aims: To investigate the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Romanian hospitals. Methods: A survey was conducted at nine hospitals throughout Romania between November 2013 and February 2014.
Gabriel Adrian Popescu, Roxana Serban, Adriana Pistol, Andreea Niculcea, Daniela Lemeni, Ioana Sabina Macovei, Daniela Tălăpan, Alexandru Rafila, Dragoş Florea   +8 more
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Extraintestinal Clostridium difficile Infections [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1996
SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics ...
Byl, Baudouin, Jacobs, Frédérique, Struelens, Marc, Thys, Jean-Pierre   +3 more
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Clostridium difficile infection among veterans health administration patients [PDF]

, 2015
OBJECTIVETo report on the prevalence and incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) from 2009 to 2013 among Veterans Healthcare Administration patientsDESIGNA retrospective descriptive analysis of data extracted from a large electronic medical ...
Dubberke, Erik R, Gerding, Dale N, Kelly, Ciarán P, Kuntz, Jennifer L, Mahé, Cédric, Mills, Peter, Neily, Julia, Olsen, Margaret A, Young-Xu, Yinong   +8 more
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Clostridium difficile infections in China [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical Research, 2010
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection has become one of the major hospital-associated infections in Western countries in the last two decades. However, there is limited information on the status of C. difficile infection in Chinese healthcare settings.
Jin, Ke, Wang, Shixia, Huang, Zuhu, Lu, Shan   +3 more
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