Vancomycin-resistant Clostridium innocuum was recently identified as an etiologic agent for
antibiotic-associated diarrhea in humans. We conducted a case–control study involving 152 …

Background A recent study from Taiwan suggested that Clostridium innocuum may be an
unrecognized cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) and clinically indistinguishable …

Clostridium innocuum is an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium identified by
Smith and King in 1962 after being isolated from a patient with an appendiceal abscess. Its …

Objectives Clostridium innocuum can cause extraintestinal infection in patients with
underlying diseases. The role of C. áinnocuum in antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) …

Objectives Extra-intestinal clostridial infection (EICI) is rare but can be fatal. Traditional
phenotypic methods can only assign many of the Clostridium species to the genus level …

Background Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of hospital-associated
antibiotic-related diarrhea and deaths worldwide. Vancomycin is one of the few antibiotics …

Clostridia are a polyphyletic group of Gram-positive, spore-forming anaerobes in the
Firmicutes phylum that significantly impact metabolism and functioning of the human …

An 85 year-old male initially admitted for septic shock due to urinary tract infection
experienced Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea during hospitalization and was treated …

Clostridium innocuum isolates resistant to vancomycin (MIC values of 16–24 μg/mL) were
isolated from three patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) …

OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the association
between Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) and …