A 75-year-old male, hospitalized with back pain, remained hospitalized for tests for unexplained colitis, which was diagnosed as inflammatory bowel disease unclassified and treated with antibiotics and prednisolone, resulting in Clostridioides difficile colitis. Therefore, antibiotics were discontin …

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Colonization by Clostridioides difficile is common in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and complicates both the management of IBD and the diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI). There is a paucity of data on rates, risk factors, and outcomes associated with asymptomatic C. difficile …

Significant variations in CDI and testing rates were observed across the three hospitals. An increase in CDI rates was noted at all centres during the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. Advanced age was not prevalent in the cohort, and rCDI rates were relatively low. These findings highlight the need for sys …

Clinical symptoms of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) range from diarrhea to pseudomembranous colitis. A major challenge in managing CDI is the high rate of relapse. Several studies correlate the production of CDT binary toxin by clinical strains of C. difficile with higher rel …

For Clostridioides difficile infections, highly sensitive rapid diagnostic test kits are necessary for prompt diagnose and infection control. In this study, we evaluated "Quick Chaser CD GDH/TOX" (evaluation kit), a rapid diagnostic kit for C. difficile, using 65 clinical stool specime …

Clostridioides difficile is a spore-forming pathogen capable of causing severe disease in humans. Critical stages in the biological cycle of this microorganism include sporogenesis/germination and toxin production by vegetative cells. Antagonizing these pivotal events could aid in prevention and tre …

Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI), often severe when producing toxin A, toxin B, and CDT, can cause life-threatening fulminant infections, especially in vulnerable patients. This case report discusses a 39-year-old woman with no medical history who developed sever …

We identified the characteristics that significantly differentiated the patients who died from those who survived. Mortality is significantly higher in the group of patients with CDI than that in the other hospitalised patients.

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) was a gram-positive anaerobic bacterium in the gut, exhibiting clinical manifestations ranging from mild diarrhoea to fatal pseudomembranous colitis. C. difficile infection (CDI) remains a serious public health problem and accounted …

Burgeoning study of host-associated microbiomes has accelerated the development of microbial therapies, including fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs). FMTs provide host-specific microbial supplementation, with applicability across host species. Studying FMTs can simultaneously provide comparative fr …

Hypoxia is a predominant risk factor at high altitudes, and evidence suggests that high-altitude hypoxia alters the gut microbiota, which plays an essential regulatory role in memory function. However, the causal relationship between the gut microbiota and memory impairment under hypoxic conditions …

Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) disorders, formerly primary immune deficiency diseases, are a heterogeneous group of disorders with variable hereditary transitions, clinical manifestations, complications and varying disease severity. Many of the clinical symptoms, signs and complications in IEI pati …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a state of sleep disorder, characterized by repetitive episodes of apnea and chronic intermittent hypoxia. OSA has an extremely high prevalence worldwide and represents a serious challenge to public health, yet its severity is frequently underestimated. It is now wel …

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Background Several studies revealed the beneficial effects of probiotics against the incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhea of hospitalized patients but it is rarely to assess the nutrition status. This study investigated the effects of probiotics in elderly hospitalized tube-fed patients with antibiotics use and is the first study that concerns the nutritional status among these patients. Methods Elderly hospitalized tube-fed patients who were using antibiotics were recruited. Probiotics were given within 48 h after their first antibiotic therapy, and then twice daily 2 h after consuming antibiotics and a meal; the probiotics were continued to use for an additional 7 days after completion of antibiotics therapy. Anthropometric data, laboratory data, medication records, nutritional status, nutrition intake and data on stool form were collected. Results Twenty-nine patients served as probiotic group. 11 patients completed the study in both groups. In probiotic group, the stool form was found to exhibit no significant differences between the beginning and end of antibiotics therapy (5.5 ± 0.8 vs 5.1 ± 1.1, p = 0.21), but the stool frequency significantly decreased (2.0 ± 1.0 vs 1.6 ± 0.7, p = 0.05). In control group, the stool form between the beginning and end of antibiotics therapy exhibited significant improvement (5.6 ± 1.4 vs 4.5 ± 1.4, p = 0.01), but not in the frequency (2.7 ± 2.1 vs 2.4 ± 1.5, p = 0.1). The initial NRS 2002 score of the probiotic and control groups were similar. (3.6 ± 1.7 vs 3.7 ± 1.8, p = 1.00), and their nutrition status both significantly improved during the last visit before discharged (2.6 ± 0.9 vs 2.9 ± 1.3). Conclusion Probiotic supplementation in elderly hospitalized tube-fed patients significantly reduced stool frequency during antibiotic treatment. Improvements in stool form were observed only during the follow-up period. Nutritional status remained stable, with patients' nutritional needs adequately met throughout the study.

Using the latest data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), the GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators1 have published updated estimates of the global diarrhoeal disease burden in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. This study used a thorough methodology to provide new, timely, and crucial evidence to support the global strategy for diarrhoeal disease prevention and control.

Enteral administration of vancomycin is the standard treatment for Clostridioides difficile (Clostridium difficile) colitis and is presumed to have no systemic absorption. In critically ill pati...

Secondary immunodeficiency disease (SID) status was associated with significantly higher risk for severe bacterial infections in adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).

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Researchers find probiotics can mitigate some effects of antibiotics but lack conclusive evidence for fully restoring the gut microbiome. Benefits exist, but proof is limited.

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a medical procedure that allows to establish a stable and healthy intestinal microbiota in various diseases believed to be related to a gut dysbiosis. Currently, FMT is successfully used to treat recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection. However, in...

While C difficile infection among individuals with cirrhosis is linked to factors such as increased in-hospital mortality and longer length of stay, it is not linked to 30-day mortality.

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Cases of C difficile caught in hospital are up a quarter on last year, according to recent figures seen by HSJ.

Colonization by Clostridioides difficile is common in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and complicates both the management of IBD and the diagnosis of C. difficile infection (CDI). There is a paucity of data on rates, risk factors, and outcomes associated with asymptomatic C. difficile …

Copper coupons can substantially reduce C. difficile spores after 4 hours, but results vary depending on the initial spore concentration and presence or absence of organic material. Higher initial spore loads or excess organic material may prevent spores from contact with copper surfaces, thu …

CDC - Blogs - Safe Healthcare Blog – Exploring the Microbiome as a Way to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance - The Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion plans to blog on as many healthcare safety topics as possible. We encourage your participation in our discussion and look forward to an active exchange of ideas.

The human microbiome has progressively been recognised for its role in various disease processes. In ophthalmology, complex interactions between the gut and distinct ocular microbiota within each structure and microenvironment of the eye has advanced our knowledge on the multi-directional relationsh …