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Original Source: Clostridium difficile infection of the small bowel-two case reports with a literature survey.
INTRODUCTION: Diseases associated with Clostridium difficile range from antibiotic-related diarrhea to pseudomembranous enterocolitis, and are serious nosocomial infections with high morbidity and mortality. The C. difficile infection has thus far been regarded as a disease typically affecting the colon. However, the literature contains an increasing number of reports describing infections of the small bowel with fulminant clinical courses and high mortality rates of 60-83%. We think this situation is not v...
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Prophylactic use of probiotics can reduce Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD). Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening infl...
Scent Detecting Dogs Can Sniff Out Hospital Infections
Dogs are now able to sniff out clostridium difficile with significant accuracy in samples of feces as well as the air around patients in the hospital, suggests a new study published in BMJ. Clostridiu...
Surgeons are making progress toward preventing initial and recurrent episodes of clostridium difficile colitis (C. difficile or C. diff), a vicious bacterial infection that is estimated to affect abou...
Probiotics prevent Clostridium difficile in people taking antibiotics
Ann Intern Med2012; published online 13 Novemberbmj;345/nov20_1/e7828/FIG1F1fig1Diarrhoea associated with Clostridium difficile is a potentially fatal complication of antibiotic treatment,...
Increasing Incidence Of Clostridium difficile Infection
A study presented by Mayo Clinic researchers during Digestive Disease Week 2012 provides clear evidence that the number of people contracting the hard-to-control and treat bacterial infection Clostrid...
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1. Prophylactic Probiotics Reduce Clostridium difficile-associated Diarrhea in Patients Taking Antibiotics Prophylactic use of probiotics can reduce Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD)....
In a new study, researchers used mice to identify a combination six naturally occurring bacteria that eradicate a highly contagious form of Clostridium difficile, an infectious bacterium associated wi...
Study reports increasing incidence of Clostridium difficile infection
A study presented by Mayo Clinic researchers during Digestive Disease Week 2012 provides clear evidence that the number of people contracting the hard-to-control and treat bacterial infection Clostrid...
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Clostridium difficile infection of the small bowel-two case reports with a literature survey.
INTRODUCTION: Diseases associated with Clostridium difficile range from antibiotic-related diarrhea to pseudomembranous enterocolitis, and are serious nosocomial infections with high morbidity and mor...
Oral vancomycin may have significant absorption in patients with Clostridium difficile colitis.
Abstract A patient on haemodialysis with bowel ischemia was given vancomycin 500 mg orally every 6 h for superimposed Clostridium difficile colitis resulting in a high vancomycin serum concentration....
Left-sided Ulcerative Colitis Reactivated and Aggravated during Clostridium difficile Infection.
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection appears to be closely related to reactivation, diagnostic delay, and disease progression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. However, whether C....
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of identifiable diarrhoea in hospitalized patients. Current therapies rely on the administration of metronidazole or vancomycin which red...
Clostridium difficile Isolated from the Fecal Contents of Swine in Japan.
A total of 250 fecal content samples were collected from 25 farrow-to-finish pig farms and examined for the prevalence of Clostridium difficile by using ethanol treatment followed by plating onto sele...
