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Epidemiology of antibiotic-associated colitis: Isolation of clostridium difficile from the hospital environment☆
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Using selective media, it was found that contamination with this organism was common in the environment of patients in the hospital with the disease and was often found on floors, hoppers, toilets, bedding, mops, scales and furniture as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Medicine.The article was published on 1981-04-01. It has received 294 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Clostridium difficile.read more
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Stuart H. Cohen,Dale N. Gerding,Stuart Johnson,Ciaran P. Kelly,Vivian G. Loo,L. Clifford McDonald,Jacques Pépin,Mark H. Wilcox +7 more
TL;DR: This guideline updates recommendations regarding epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control and environmental management of Clostridium difficile.
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Clostridium difficile Infection
TL;DR: This article reviews the pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this nosocomial and potentially fatal infectious diarrhea, as well as the associated risk factors.
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Nosocomial acquisition of Clostridium difficile infection
TL;DR: Nosocomial C. difficile infection, which was associated with diarrhea in about one third of cases, is frequently transmitted among hospitalized patients and that the organism is often present on the hands of hospital personnel caring for such patients.
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Clostridium difficile Colitis
TL;DR: Clostridium difficile, the agent that causes pseudomembranous colitis associated with antibiotic therapy, has been identified in recent years as a common nosocomial pathogen.
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Clinical practice. Antibiotic-associated diarrhea.
TL;DR: This discussion covers antibiotic agents that have been associated with some effect and the more common mechanisms of drug induced bowel injury are listed below.
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Anaerobe Laboratory manual
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Selective and differential medium for isolation of Clostridium difficile.
TL;DR: A selective and differential agar medium that contains cycloserine, cefoxitin, fructose, and egg yolk (CCFA) was developed to facilitate the isolation of C. difficile from fecal specimens and was found to be the most sensitive and selective of these media for the recovery of the bacterium.
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Clostridium difficile and the ætiology of pseudomembranous colitis
TL;DR: Findings suggest that P.M.C. results from infection with C. difficile and that previous antibiotic therapy produces susceptibility to infection.
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Clindamycin-Associated Colitis: A Prospective Study
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Antibiotic-Associated Pseudomembranous Colitis
TL;DR: Evidence that supports the etiologic role of this organism in antibiotic-associated PMC comes from both bacteriological studies and tissue culture assays, which demonstrate that the stool supernate from nearly all patients with anatomically confirmed PMC contains a cytotoxin that is neutralized with Clostridium sordellii antitoxin.