C Difficile

Diagnostic stewardship, along with targeted prevention efforts and a testing and treatment clinical care pathway, reduced hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile by more than 50% in a children’s hospital, researchers reported.

Living organisms rely on iron for survival and replication. Can new research discoveries disrupt C. difficile’s ability to maintain iron homeostasis?

Introduction. Infectious gastroenteritis is a common reason for consulting a physician. Although most cases of gastrointestinal illness are self-limiting, the identification of the etiologic pathogen by stool specimen analysis is important in cases of more severe illness and for epidemiologic …

Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic used to treat infections caused by some Gram-positive bacteria. Daptomycin disrupts synthesis of the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall by inserting into the cytoplasmic membrane and binding multiple forms of the undecaprenyl carrier lipid required for PG synt …

The study revealed a significant knowledge gap among Saudi healthcare providers regarding CDI diagnosis, management, and severity classification, highlighting the need for improved education and adherence to guidelines to improve patient outcomes and reduce recurrence risks.

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) remains a significant contributor to healthcare costs and morbidity due to high rates of recurrence. Currently, available antibiotic treatment strategies further disrupt the fecal microbiome and do not address the alterations in commensal flora (dysbio …

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) panelists have recently developed clinical recommendations for the use of Fecal Microbiota

Evidence of more side effects, lack of survival benefit with extended anaerobic coverage

Reduced vancomycin susceptibility in C. difficile was associated with decreased odds of 30-day SCR and lower 14-day initial cure rates in the studied patient cohort.

Reactive arthritis (RA) is the development of a sterile inflammatory arthritis usually associated with a previously known infection, most commonly from the gastrointestinal or urogenital tract. ...

Recent findings underscore the complexities involved in microbiome research, particularly in the context of bladder cancer. Challenges include low microbial biomass in urine samples, potential contamination issues during collection and processing, variability in sequencing methods and primer selecti …

Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic used to treat infections caused by some Gram-positive bacteria. Daptomycin disrupts synthesis of the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall by inserting into the cytoplasmic membrane and binding multiple forms of the undecaprenyl carrier lipid required for PG synt …

A 77-year-old woman with a history of total gastrectomy was transferred to our hospital with complaints of fever and consciousness disturbance for five days. She had fever and consciousness dist...

Clostridioides difficile is the leading cause of antibiotic-associated infectious diarrhea. The development of C.difficile infection is tied to perturbations of the bacterial community in the gastrointestinal tract, called the gastrointestinal microbiota. Repairing the gastrointestinal microbiota by …

The utilization of GI PCR panels in AGE patients has revolutionized the field of diagnostics by providing rapid and accurate identification of pathogens. In units without the possibility of GI PCR testing, CRP, procalcitonin, CRP/albumin ratio and procalcitonin/albumin ratio may be useful in the dec …

Background Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection can have serious implications on patient outcomes, especially post ileostomy reversal. The symptoms can range from asymptomatic/mild to severe, with significant morbidity or mortality. Thus far, no study has been published to determine …

Clostridioides difficile infections have become a major challenge in medical facilities. The bacterium is capable of spore formation allowing the survival of antibiotic treatment. Therefore, research on the physiology of C. difficile is important for the development of alternative trea …

This study explored the novel application of the RTCA assay in effectively discerning clinical CDI from CDC cases.

A significant increase of hospital-acquired bacterial infections during the COVID-19 pandemic has become an urgent medical problem. Clostridioides difficile is an urgent antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogen and a leading causative agent of nosocomial infections. The increasing recurrence o …

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea, despite the widespread implementation of contact precautions for patients with CDI. Here, we investigate strain contamination in a hospital setting and the genomic determinants of disease outcomes. Ac …

Clostridioides difficile represents a major burden to public health. As a well-known nosocomial pathogen whose occurrence is highly associated with antibiotic treatment, most examined C. difficile strains originated from clinical specimen and were isolated under selective conditions em …

The regional CDI burden in Asia is still incompletely documented, seemingly due to low awareness and limited laboratory testing. Despite this apparent under recognition, the current CDI burden highlights the need for broader surveillance and for application of preventative measures against CDI in As …

Clostridioides difficile results in upwards of 250,000 infections and 12,000 deaths annually in the United States. Community-acquired infections continue to rise and recurrent disease is common, emphasizing a vital need to understand C. difficile pathogenesis. C. difficile undou …

The opportunistic pathogen, Clostridioides difficile owes its extreme pathogenicity for its ability to develop antibiotic resistance and recurrent infections. The current antibiotics used for the treatment are showing declining sensitivity and rising antibiotic resistance. Therefore, it is of …

The most common infections in our patients were bloodstream infections followed by pneumonia. High rates of gram negative infections, including those caused by carbapenem resistant bacteria, reflect the Indian critical care unit epidemiology in general. Despite these high infection rates with antimi …

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. This study described outcomes associated with mandatory infectious diseases (ID) consultation in hospitalized patients with CDI. ID consultation was associated with increased appropriate concomita …

Nosocomial-associated diarrhea due to Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is diagnosed after sample precultivation by the detection of the toxins in enzyme immunoassays or via toxin gene nucleic acid amplification. Rapid and direct diagnosis is important for targeted treatment to prevent …

FMT is a safe and effective strategy to eradicate MDR bacteria, even in spinal cord injured patients. FMT can allow relaxation of isolation facilitates, the participation of patients in a complete rehabilitation program, their social integration, and transfer to follow-up rehabilitation centres.

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