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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"clostridium-difficile-infection"”.
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Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection Prevention
… 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 developing evidence based practice interventions. The process begins …
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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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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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A prospective study of Clostridium difficile infection to investigate the impact of NAP1 strain in a tertiary referral hospital
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… in fiscal year 2017, Healthcare-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile infection</em> 30-day readmission penalties will commence under CMS quality programs. The aim of this quality improvement project was to decrease 30-day readmissions of healthcare-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile</em> …
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Systems Immunology Approaches for Precision Medicine
… the host-pathogen-microbiota interactions during Clostridium difficile infection and the use of this model for the development of the hypothesis that host-antimicrobial peptide production may correlate with increased disease severity and promote increased recurrence. Secondly, it provides insight …
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Computational insights into the ecology of the human microbiota
… transplantation (FMT) to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. I develop a new method to infer the genotypes and frequencies of bacterial strains in metagenomics samples. I apply this method to a dataset covering twenty patients before and after FMT, uncovering key ecological …
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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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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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Die Rolle der Stuhldiagnostik bei Patienten mit nosokomialer Diarrhoe
… auf enteropathogene Bakterien (ohne C. difficile) hat eine niedrige <br>Ausbeute an positiven Resultaten, die bei zunehmender Hospitalisationsdauer von <br>initial 3.3 (innerhalb der ersten 72 Stunden) auf 0 (nach mehr als 31 Tagen) <br>abnimmt. Die Untersuchungen auf das Toxin von C. …
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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 …