Fecal Transplantation for —“All Stool May Not Be Created Equal”
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2016 Clostridium difficile is a gram-positive bacterium that is recognized as a causative organism of pseudomembranous enterocolitis. This infection has become a major public health challenge and is a source of considerable morbidity and mortality in those ...
Joseph C. Gathe MD, FACP, FIDSA +3 more
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Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Clostridium difficile Infection, Finland, 1996–2004
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 To determine whether the rate of Clostridium difficile–associated disease (CDAD) and CDAD-related deaths were increasing in Finland, we analyzed registry data from 1996 through 2004.
Outi Lyytikäinen +6 more
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis complicating ampicillin therapy [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1977 Summary A case of fatal pseudomembranous enterocolitis associated with ampicillin therapy is described and possible mechanisms for its production discussed.
J. R. Cove-Smith, L. Read
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Clostridium difficile in the ICU [PDF]
, 2017 Clostridium difficile has become an increasingly common infectious agent in the healthcare setting. It is generally associated with antibiotic use and causes diarrhea as well as other complications such as pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) and toxic ...
Herndon, David N. +3 more
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Generalizability analyses with a partially nested trial design: the Necrotizing Enterocolitis Surgery Trial [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We discuss generalizability analyses under a partially nested trial design, where part of the trial is nested within a cohort of trial-eligible individuals, while the rest of the trial is not nested. This design arises, for example, when only some centers participating in a trial are able to collect data on non-randomized individuals, or when data on ...
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis cured with three intestinal microbiota transplantations
, 2018 We present a unique case of a 82 years old women, with this newly described condition called “pseudomembranous enterocolitis cured with three transplants of intestinal microbi0ta (imt).” We evaluated the case of gaw, who had a perforates sigmoid ...
Álvaro Zamudio-Tiburcio +4 more
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Rifampin-induced Pseudomembranous Colitis with Rectosigmoid Sparing [PDF]
, 2011 Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is known to be associated with antibiotic treatment, but is not commonly related to antitubercular (anti-TB) agent, rifampin.
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Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2017 Introduction: Clostridium difficile is the main pathogen related to healthcare-associated diarrhea and it is the cause of 20 to 30% of diarrhea cases caused by antibiotics.
Sandra Milena Gualtero +11 more
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Faecal Microbiota Transplantation plus selected use of antibiotics for severe-complicated Clostridium difficile infection: description of a protocol with high success rate [PDF]
, 2015 Background Severe and severe/complicated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) can result in ICU admission, sepsis, toxic megacolon and death. In this setting, colectomy is the standard of care but it is associated with a 50% mortality.
Cook, Gwen K. +6 more
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Response to Drs. Borges and Klompmaker [PDF]
, 1991 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73735/1/j.1572-0241.1991.tb07144.x ...
Ruffin, Mack T.
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