Background. Recent outbreaks of severe cases of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea
(CDAD) reported in North America, the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands have …

Increasing rates of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) among those without traditional risk
factors have been reported mainly in Europe and North America. Here we describe the …

We conducted a prospective study to evaluate the prevalence and epidemiology of CDI in
Kuwait government hospitals over a 3-year period, January 2003 to December 2005, to …

In Colombia, the epidemiology and circulating genotypes of Clostridium difficile have not yet
been described. Therefore, we molecularly characterized clinical isolates of C. difficile from …

Introduction: Clostridium difficile is the major etiological agent of nosocomial antibiotics
associated diarrhoea. C. difficile infection is associated with considerable morbidity and …

Prospective hospital-based surveillance for Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD)
was conducted in Barcelona (Spain) to describe the epidemiology of this condition and …

Little is known about the clinical characteristics of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in Asia
in general, and Thailand specifically, with a few studies suggesting that the disease may be …

Clostridium difficile is a widely distributed pathogen with multiple strain types as determined
by restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) and by PCR ribotyping, two well-characterized …

Clostridium difficile strains are known as etiological agents of pseudomembranous colitis
(PMC), antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAC) and colitis (AAC) and hospital-acquired …