Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD) is the most common hospital-acquired
diarrhoea, and is a major type of gastroenteritis infection in nursing homes and facilities for …

Clostridium difficile is a common causative organism of antimicrobial-associated diarrhea
and is often responsible for nosocomial infection. C. difficile infection has traditionally been …

Background Clostridium difficile is a pathogen of rapidly increasing public health
importance. An estimated quarter of a million Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) occur in …

Methods: Among 10 groups of BALB/c mice (6 in each), group 1 served as controls receiving
no inoculum. Animals in groups 2-10 received C. difficile, those in groups 3, 6 and 9 …

The purpose of this review paper is to update the current and potential future role of
probiotics for Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD). Included in this review, is an …

Background The dramatic upsurge of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) by hypervirulent
isolates along with the paucity of effective conventional treatment call for the development of …

The objective of this study was to undertake a microbiological survey of foods, animal faeces
and wastewater samples for Clostridium difficile, and determine the genotypes and …

Tinidazole, a 5-nitroimidazole similar to metronidazole, was studied against 40 Clostridium
difficile, 10 Prevotella bivia and 11 Bacteroides fragilis clinical isolates. The geometric mean …

With the end of the golden era of antibiotic discovery, the emergence of a new post-antibiotic
age threatens to thrust global health and modern medicine back to the pre-antibiotic era …

There have been a number of advances in probiotics and our understanding of their role in
prevention of CDI, but a number of important safety and efficacy questions remain. An …