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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)."”.
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Reevaluating fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent clostridium difficile infection
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a disease associated with the wide-spread use of antibiotics and causes 450,000 infections and almost 30,000 deaths in the United States annually. Recurrence is a major problem, with approximately 1/3rd of patients relapsing after antibiotic treatment for …
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Exploiting Bacteriophages to Tackle Clostridium difficile Infection
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) currently affects around 20,000 people each year, in healthcare institutions and in the community, and will often follow disruption of the gut microbiome. Current treatment strategies call for the use of further antibiotics, of which there is a limited choice. …
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Development of novel therapies for gut dysbioses
… out by the author in the general area of “infection-driven inflammation”. The Centre for Digestive Diseases (CDD) endoscopy clinic was founded by the author in 1984 closely coinciding with Drs Barry Marshall and Robin Warren reporting gastric spiral bacteria with pathogenic role in ulcer …
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Time series analysis for evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship interventions
… Not only are they crucial for the treatment of infection, antimicrobials are used across the whole healthcare system including to support cancer chemotherapy, and organ transplantation. The use, including avoidable misuse and over use, of antimicrobials drives antimicrobial resistance. The World …
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A Multi-Method Systems Approach to Antimicrobial Management in Continuing Care Wards
… can lead to undesirable consequences such as Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Optimising antibiotic management, commonly referred to as antimicrobial stewardship (Allerberger, 2009), is one of the strategies adopted to reduce unnecessary and …