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Te-Wen Chang
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 42
Citations - 1959
Te-Wen Chang is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Clostridium difficile & Colitis. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 42 publications receiving 1937 citations. Previous affiliations of Te-Wen Chang include Veterans Health Administration & Memorial Hospital of South Bend.
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Successful treatment of relapsing clostridium difficile colitis with lactobacillus gg
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Clindamycin-induced enterocolitis in hamsters as a model of pseudomembranous colitis in patients.
TL;DR: Results indicate that clindamycin-induced enterocolitis in hamsters is a model of human disease and implicate toxin-producing clostridia as responsible agents.
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Clinical and laboratory observations in Clostridium difficile colitis.
TL;DR: The purpose of the present report is to review some of the recent observations from this laboratory regarding C. d fJIcile and antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis.
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Symptomatic relapse after oral vancomycin therapy of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis
John G. Bartlett,John G. Bartlett,John G. Bartlett,Francis J. Tedesco,Francis J. Tedesco,Francis J. Tedesco,Steward Shull,Steward Shull,Steward Shull,Bruce Lowe,Bruce Lowe,Bruce Lowe,Te-Wen Chang,Te-Wen Chang,Te-Wen Chang +14 more
TL;DR: The experience emphasizes the importance of adequate followup in patients treated with oral vancomycin for antibiotic-associated diarrhea or colitis due to C. difficile despite susceptibility to this agent with in vitro testing.
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Colitis Induced by Clostridium difficile
TL;DR: A laboratory diagnostic test of choice is a tissue culture assay that demonstrates the presence of a cytopathic toxin neutralized by antitoxin to Clostridium sordellii, which appears to represent antigenic cross-reactivity.