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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"clostridium difficile"”.
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Reducing Clostridium Difficile
… to reduce the number of laboratory identified Clostridium Difficile Infections (CDI) events by 20% by December 2015. This CNL projects focuses on reducing CDI in an 8 unit bed specifically designated for medically ill geriatric patients above 70 years old residing in the West Texas region. A …
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Clostridium difficile and its toxins
An investigation of Clostridium difficile has shown : 1. that the organism is resistant to cresols and phenolq and may be grown from material grossly contaminated with other organisms by culture in media containing these substances; strains isolated before this method was evised are also resistant …
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Identification of Operons in clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), an anaerobic, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium, is a major nosocomial pathogen that causes severe, toxin-mediated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis. Previous studies of pathogenic bacteria, including C. difficile, have investigated the operon …
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Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection Prevention
<p> Abstract</p> <p>The aim of my CNL Internship Project is to decrease the incidence of healthcare acquired C diff infections at the acute care unit 1800 to zero for the next quarter. This will be accomplished by developing an action plan to address the issue by collecting data from audits and …
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Étude des riborégulateurs glycine chez Clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile est une bactérie pathogène opportuniste causant chaque année des ravages dans les hôpitaux. Depuis quelques années, elle est devenue de plus en plus résistante aux antibiotiques et représente un coût financier grandissant pour le système de santé qui peine à la traiter. De …
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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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Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of Clostridium Difficile
Clostridium difficile is at present one of the most common nosocomial infections in the developed world. Hypervirulent strains (PCR ribotype 027) of C. difficile which produce enhanced levels of toxins have also been associated with other characteristics such as a greater rate of sporulation and …
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Estudio descriptivo de la microbiota intestinal en pacientes con infección por Clostridium difficile y en individuos colonizados por Clostridium difficile.
Clostridium difficile es un bacilo Gram positivo, anaerobio estricto y formador de esporas. Constituye la principal causa de diarrea nosocomial en pacientes hospitalizados. Su patogenicidad se asocia al uso de antibióticos y a una respuesta inmune disminuida, así como a la edad avanzada, …
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Regulation of to xin Synthesis By Clostridium Difficile
<p><em>Clostridium difficile</em> is the leading definable cause of nosocomial diarrhea worldwide due to its virulence, multi-drug resistance, spore-forming ability, and environmental persistence. The incidence of <em>C. difficile</em> infection (CDI) has been increasing exponentially in the last …
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Charakterisierung der ADP-Ribosyltransferase CDTa von Clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile ist der häufigste Erreger der Antibiotika-assoziierten Diarrhö und der pseudomembranösen Kolitis. Der Keim produziert neben zwei Proteintoxinen (Toxin A und B), die bislang als die entscheidenden Pathogenitätsfaktoren angesehen werden, ein weiteres Exotoxin, die C. difficile …
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The isolation, identification and detection of Clostridium Difficile
… immunosorbant assay (ELISA) for detection of Clostridium difficile in broth cultures and faeces, to develop a new selective isolation medium and rapid identification test for Cl.difficile, to investigate the use of SDS-PAGE for typing isolates and to determine the presence of antibodies …
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Clostridium difficile izolátumok antibiotikumokkal szembeni érzékenységének in vitro vizsgálata
… között vizsgáltam a klinikatelepen vett Clostridium difficile baktériumok vankomycin és metronidazol érzékenységét. Röviden ismertettem a baktérium fizikai és biokémiai tulajdonságait és a toxinjai által okozott fertőzések kezelési lehetőségeit. Eredményeimből következtetéseket vontam le …
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Clostridium Difficile: An Investigation on a Medical Surgical Unit
… contributors to the rising trend of <em>Clostridium difficile</em> cases on this medical-surgical unit, (2) review all <em>Clostridium difficile</em> cases for correlational factors that are of significant relevance, (3) examine current unit practices and adherence to established …
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Hypervirulent Clostridium Difficile Strains: Adherence, Toxin Production and Sporulation
<p><italic>Clostridium difficile</italic> is a leading cause of nosocomial infections, and recently emerged "hypervirulent" <italic> C. difficile </italic>strains have caused epidemics worldwide. We hypothesized that multiple factors were responsible for this phenotype, particularly the interaction …
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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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Identification and characterization of a receptor for Clostridium Difficile enterotoxin
Clostridium difficile and its toxins are implicated as the cause of pseudomembranous colitis in patients undergoing antibiotic therapy. Very little information is known about how these toxins bind to cells and cause disease. In an attempt to understand how these toxins work this dissertation …
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Characterization of Metronidazole- and Vancomycin-Resistant Clinical Isolates of Clostridium Difficile
… Vancomycin-Resistant Clinical Isolates of <em>Clostridium difficile</em></strong></p> <p>Chioma Odo, MS.</p> <p>Supervisory Professor: Charles Darkoh, Ph.D.</p> <p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>The incidence of <em>C. difficile</em> infections (CDI) has been increasing at an alarming rate. …
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Prevalence and control of Clostridium difficile in patients with cystic fibrosis
… thesis was to investigate the high prevalence of Clostridium difficile in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and to control its dissemination. To determine the carriage rate of C. difficile in CF patients, 60 patients were tested for C. difficile and its toxin. In total, 50% of patients were …
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