Clostridium innocuum, an emerging pathogen that induces lipid raft-mediated cytotoxicity

…, MW Ho, CL Chen, TS Hsu, YC Chen, C Chiang-Ni… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
difficile infection alone in ulcerative colitis [Citation7]. … The Clostridium difficile cell wall
protein CwpV is antigenically variable between strains, but exhibits conserved aggregation-…

Association between use of proton pump inhibitors and occurrence of colon diverticulitis

BL Ho, HY Hu, SS Chang - Journal of the Chinese Medical …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… that PPIs increase the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection. The case-control study …
We thank the Taiwan Ministry of Education for supporting this work through their “Aim for the …

Association Between Clostridium innocuum and Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea in Adults and Children: A Cross-sectional Study and Comparative Genomics Analysis

KE Cherny, EB Muscat, A Balaji… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… A recent study from Taiwan suggested that Clostridium innocuum … Clostridioides difficile
infection. Our objective was to compare … is unknown, and the genomic features of C. innocuum in …

Clinical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibilities of anaerobic bacteremia in an acute care hospital

TY Tan, LSY Ng, LL Kwang, S Rao, LC Eng - Anaerobe, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigated the clinical features of anaerobic bacteraemia in an acute-care
hospital, and evaluated the antimicrobial susceptibility of these isolates to commonly available …

Evolving Insights Into the Epidemiology and Control of Clostridium difficile in Hospitals

DA Caroff, DS Yokoe, M Klompas - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… Typing studies suggest that most cases of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)
are unrelated to other cases of active disease in the hospital. New cases may instead be due …

Clostridium difficile: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, and an Update on the Limitations of and Challenges in Its Diagnosis

AA Alyousef - Journal of AOAC International, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… causes human-associated diarrhea, which is now known as C. difficile infection (CDI), a …
Data from a clinical trial suggested that major features of CDI patients include the elderly (>70 …

[HTML][HTML] The Transcriptional Regulator Lrp Contributes to Toxin Expression, Sporulation, and Swimming Motility in Clostridium difficile

KY Chen, J Rathod, YC Chiu, JW Chen… - … cellular and infection …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… highlighted conserved residues and functional features. A PROSITE pattern search on …
all features, we hypothesized that C. difficile Lrp may exhibit similar functional features to …

… of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 in piglets in the Czech Republic clusters with Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 isolates from Germany, Japan and Taiwan

M Krutova, M Zouharova, J Matejkova, J Tkadlec… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
difficile 078-variant isolates clustered with C. difficile RT078 isolates from Japan and
Taiwan. This study found an emergence of C. …

Prevalence and trends of Clostridioides difficile infection among persons requiring maintenance hemodialysis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

YM Elfanagely, JR Tanzer, A Shobayo… - Infection Control & …, 2023 - cambridge.org
… High mortality risk in chronic kidney disease and end stage kidney disease patients with
Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Nat Sci 2015;1:e85. 11. …

[HTML][HTML] The Bacterial Gut Microbiota of Adult Patients Infected, Colonized or Noncolonized by Clostridioides difficile

…, QR Ducarmon, EM Terveer, C Harmanus… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
difficile infection (CDI), a lower richness and diversity, and … part of the CDD (“Clostridium
difficile dragerschap” (carriership)… a general hospital, patient characteristics in these groups may …