To determine clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with Clostridium difficile
bacteremia (CDB), we identified 12 patients with CDB in 2 medical centers in Taiwan; all …

To the Editor: Vonberg et al.(1) recently commented on the increase of Clostridium difficile
seen in US hospitals by using discharge diagnoses and confirmed the observation from the …

The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is constantly changing and is
influenced by antibiotic usage patterns, healthcare patient environment, and emergence of …

Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a public health threat with high mortality
and recurrence. Despite its importance, little is known about CDI in Thailand. There has …

OBJECTIVETo use next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis to enhance epidemiological
information to identify and resolve a Clostridium difficile outbreak and to evaluate its …

Clostridium difficile ribotype (RT) 017 is an important toxigenic C. difficile RT which, due to a
deletion in the repetitive region of the tcdA gene, only produces functional toxin B. Strains …

Clostridium difficile has not been studied in detail in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia. We
thus performed a prevalence study across four hospitals in Central Java province …

Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile is the main cause of nosocomial diarrhoea. Ribotype
018 (RT018) has been recognized as the predominant strain responsible for C. difficile …

Background and Objective Clostridium difficile NAP1/ribotype 027 is associated with severe
disease and high mortality rates. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of NAP1/ribotype …

Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has been a major growing problem in
hospitals in recent years. Detection of the source of Clostridium difficile strains is of …