C Diff Molecular

Objective: Hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are at risk of developing Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). We developed and tested clinical decision-rules for identifying CDI risk in this patient population.Methods: The study was a single-center …

Infections remain a common complication of solid-organ transplantation. Most infections in the first month after transplant are typically health care-associated infections, whereas late infections, beyond 6-12 months, are community-acquired infections. Opportunistic infections most frequently presen …

The majority of C. difficile isolated in Australia did not show reduced susceptibility to antimicrobials recommended for treatment of CDI (vancomycin, metronidazole and fidaxomicin). Resistance to carbapenems and fluoroquinolones was low and MDR was uncommon; however, clindamycin resistance was freq …

The metagenomic and quantitative polymerase chain reaction approaches were combined to evaluate the profiles of ARGs and plasmids in anaerobically digested dairy manure in situ and reveal the persistence and elevation of typical ARGs and plasmids in its subsequent disposal facilities in CAFOs, respe …

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Future Microbiol. 2021 Apr 13. doi: 10.2217/fmb-2020-0275. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we practice medicine

The discovery of C diff’s ability to harness heme to shield itself from the body’s immune responses hopefully brings a new dimension to the fight against the damaging pathogen.

Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, toxin-producing anaerobe that can cause nosocomial antibiotic-associated intestinal disease. Although the production of toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB) contribute to the main pathogenesis of C. difficile, the mechanism of TcdA and TcdB re …

S-layers are self-assembled crystalline 2D lattices enclosing the cell envelopes of several bacteria and archaea. Despite their abundance, the landscape of S-layer structure and function remains a land of wonder. By virtue of their location, bacterial S-layers have been hypothesized to add structura …

The proportion of cases with CDI in perforated appendicitis was found to be greater in comparison to the non-perforated cases.

We have identified and characterised a cortex specific PBP in C. difficile. This is the first characterisation of a cortex-specific PBP in C. difficile and begins the process of unravelling cortex biogenesis in this important pathogen.

Approximately 5000 of the 276,000 deaths that occur annually among hospitalized adults in England can be attributed to AGE not caused by CDI, which is higher than previously estimated.

The investigators called their findings the “opposite of what was expected.”

This is the first known nationally representative study on CDI and AL, mortality, and length of stay among colectomy patients. Using advanced machine learning and PS analysis, we provide evidence that suggests CDI increases AL in a dose-dependent manner with increasing ASA Class.

Females and older patients had higher rates of hospitalizations with CDI than males and younger patients.

Scientists have been able to track how a multi-drug resistant organism is able to evolve and spread widely among cystic fibrosis patients - showing that...

Scientists have been able to track how a multi-drug resistant organism is able to evolve and spread widely among cystic fibrosis patients – showing that it can evolve rapidly within an individual during chronic infection.

Clostridioides difficile is a Gram positive spore-forming rod and mainly responsible for nosocomial diarrhea in developed nations. Molecular and antimicrobial surveillance is important for monitoring the strain composition including genotypes of high epidemiological importance such as ribotype 027 ( …

The introduction of stable isotopes in vivo via metabolic labeling approaches (SILAC or 15N-labeling) allows, after combination of differentially treated labeled and unlabeled cells or protein extracts, for correction of protein quantification errors implemented during elaborated sample p …

Colonization by the microbiota provides one of our most effective barriers against infection by pathogenic microbes. The microbiota protects against infection by priming immune defenses, by metabolic exclusion of pathogens from their preferred niches, and through direct antimicrobial antagonism. Dis …

The gut bacterial community prevents many pathogens from colonizing the intestine. Previous studies have associated specific bacteria with clearing Clostridioides difficile colonization across different community perturbations. However, those bacteria alone have been unable to clear C. dif …