- ►annals.org [PDF] S Johnson, SA Kent, KJ O'Leary, MM … - Annals of internal medicine, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Many clinical laboratories use toxin A immuno- assays to test for
Clostridium difficile. Objective: To describe the clinical course of a patient
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AP Limaye, DK Turgeon, BT Cookson, TR … - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov A 60-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of crampy
abdominal pain and severe diarrhea. The patient's underlying medical conditions
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- ►nih.gov F Barbut, V Lalande, B Burghoffer, HV Thien, E … - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2002 - jcm.highwire.org Toxin A variant strains (toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive strains) of
Clostridium difficile have been reported to be responsible for diarrhea or
pseudomembranous colitis in humans. These strains lack parts of the ... Cited by 81 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov MJ Alfa, A Kabani, D Lyerly, S Moncrief, LM … - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000 - jcm.highwire.org Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CAD) is a very common nosocomial
infection that contributes significantly to patient morbidity and mortality as
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E Kuijper, J Weerdt, H Kato, N Kato, A Dam, … - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious …, 2001 - Springer Abstract A clindamycin-resistant toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive Clostridium
difficile strain caused an outbreak among 24 hospitalized patients at the
Department of Sur- gery, the Intensive Care unit, and the Department of In- ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
L Kyne, M Warny, A Qamar, CP Kelly - The Lancet, 2001 - Elsevier 19 patients died (30%). Of the 44 who survived, 22 had recurrent C difficile
diarrhoea. Patients with a single episode of C difficile diarrhoea (n=22) had
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- ►nih.gov A Lozniewski, C Rabaud, E Dotto, M Weber, F … - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol Detection of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B in stools by Premier Cytoclone
A+B enzyme immunoassay (EIA) was compared with detection by stool culture for C.
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- ►old-herborn-university.de [PDF] PJ Giannasca, M Warny - Vaccine, 2004 - Elsevier Clostridium difficile, a gram-positive bacterium, is the major cause of
hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea and colitis in industrialized nations. C.
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- ►nih.gov M Rupnik, N Kato, M Grabnar, H Kato - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2003 - jcm.highwire.org A total of 56 C. difficile strains were selected from 310 isolates obtained from
different hospitals in Japan and Korea and from healthy infants from Indonesia.
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A Wanahita, EA Goldsmith, DM Musher - Clinical infectious diseases, 2002 - UChicago Press Featured in New York Times "Searching the Web for Flu Outbreaks" November 28,
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