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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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Clostridium difficile colitis in patients after kidney and pancreas-kidney transplantation [PDF]

, 2004
Limited data exist about Clostridium difficile colitis (CDC) in solid organ transplant patients. Between 1/1/99 and 12/31/02, 600 kidney and 102 pancreas–kidney allograft recipients were transplanted.
Basu, A, Fung, JJ, Keven, K, Marcos, A, Re, L, Shapiro, R, Simmons, RL, Starzl, TE, Tan, H   +8 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
Stephanie Hammond, Jennan A. Phillips
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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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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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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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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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Role of the microbiome, probiotics, and 'dysbiosis therapy' in critical illness. [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose of reviewLoss of 'health-promoting' microbes and overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria (dysbiosis) in ICU is believed to contribute to nosocomial infections, sepsis, and organ failure (multiple organ dysfunction syndrome).
Knight, Rob, McDonald, Daniel, Wischmeyer, Paul E   +2 more
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Application of MALDI-TOF MS to assess clinical characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes associated with anaerobic bloodstream infection: a retrospective observational study

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2021
Background Correctly identifying anaerobic bloodstream infections (BSIs) is difficult. However, a new technique, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), enables more accurate identification and ...
Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Yuki Hara, Yusuke Yoshimi, Waka Yokoyama-kokuryo, Yoshiro Fujita, Masamichi Yokoe, Yoshinori Noguchi   +6 more
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The role of a sequencing-based clinical intestinal screening test in patients at high-risk for Clostridium difficile and other pathogens: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Background Hospitalization and antibiotic treatment can put patients at high risk for Clostridium difficile infection, where a disturbance of the gut microbiome allows for Clostridium difficile proliferation and associated symptoms, including mild ...
Maureen Hitschfeld, Elena Tovar, Sarah Gupta, Elisabeth M. Bik, Christina Palmer, Michael C. Hoaglin, Daniel E. Almonacid, Jessica Richman, Zachary S. Apte   +8 more
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