Clostridium difficile is considered to be a leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea. C.
difficile (CDI) infection shows a high rate of recurrence. There would have to be a …

Clostridium difficile is an important cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. The
simultaneous presence of different strains in individual faecal samples has not yet been …

Recognised as the leading cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, the
incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains high despite efforts to improve …

Abstract Background The Clostridium difficile rate in symptomatic patients represents both
those with C. difficile infection (CDI) and those with colonization. To predict the extent of CDI …

Clostridium difficile is a unique pathogen that often predominates in the bowel microflora as
a result of the microbial compositional changes following antibiotic treatment. The hospital …

Clostridium difficile infection is almost unrecognized in mainland China. We have
undertaken a study in a large Chinese teaching hospital in Changsha, Hunan, China, to …

Nosocomial Clostridium difficile infection was investigated at a hospital with 15 cases of C.
difficile diarrhea per 1000 discharges. From January 1991 to May 1991, patients admitted or …

This is the first study to provide a comprehensive insight into the molecular epidemiology of
endemic Clostridium difficile and particularly that associated with a recently recognized …

Recurrence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) occurs in 15 to 20% of
patients after discontinuation of treatment. Arbitrarily primed PCR was used to investigate …

We prospectively studied the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea
(CDAD) in a 900-bed hospital over the course of 12 months by PCR-ribotyping of C. difficile …