K Solomon - Therapeutic advances in infectious disease, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common infectious cause of healthcare- acquired diarrhoea. Outcomes of C. difficile colonization are varied, from asymptomatic …
Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection represents a burdensome clinical issue whose epidemiology is increasing worldwide. The pathogenesis is not yet completely known …
Infection of the colon with the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium difficile is potentially life threatening, especially in elderly people and in patients who have dysbiosis of the gut …
Clostridium difficile is the most important cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea in the western world. C. difficile infections are a major healthcare burden with approximately …
A Donlan, WA Petri Jr - Clinics in colon and rectal surgery, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Clostridium difficile (reclassified as “Clostridioides”) is the leading cause of hospital- acquired infections in the United States, and is associated with high-patient mortality and …
CP Kelly, L Kyne - Journal of medical microbiology, 2011 - microbiologyresearch.org
Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial bacterial diarrhoea in the Western world. Diarrhoea and colitis are caused by the actions of toxins A and B released by …
S Péchiné, A Collignon - Anaerobe, 2016 - Elsevier
The spectrum of Clostridium difficile infections is highly variable, ranging from asymptomatic carriage to fatal colitis depending on the strain virulence and on the host, its gut microbiota …
R Madan, WA Petri Jr - Trends in molecular medicine, 2012 - cell.com
Clostridium difficile is the causal agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections in the US. C. difficile has been known to cause severe …
M Fischer - Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MF Clostridium difficile infection usually occurs in sus ceptible patients after antibiotic therapy kills a good por tion of the native microbiota. In these vulnerable individ uals, when …