8,547 results match your criteria: "Pseudomembranous Colitis"
Proteins
December 2024
Department of Bioengineering, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
(a) Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) bacterium can cause severe diarrhea and its over-colonization in the host's intestinal tract lead to the development of pseudomembranous colitis, generally due to antibiotic usage. The primary exotoxins involved are toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), the latter being more pathogenic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Esp Enferm Dig
December 2024
Gastroenterology, Hospital central de Maputo, Moçambique.
JPGN Rep
November 2024
Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People Edinburgh UK.
We present a case of an 8-week-old infant with acute bloody diarrhoea and subsequent passage of an intestinal cast. An extensive immune and infection work-up did not reveal a causative aetiology. Histopathology indicated the cast represented an intestinal pseudomembrane.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicroorganisms
November 2024
Department of Microbiology and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85-029 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
November 2024
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110.
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
October 2024
CHU de Grenoble-Alpes, Président du Collège National des Enseignants de Gériatrie, France.
Langenbecks Arch Surg
September 2024
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
J Infect Chemother
August 2024
Department of Pharmacy, Mie University Hospital, Mie, Japan; Department of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Division of Clinical Medical Science, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Pathogens
July 2024
Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Roma, Italy.
Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi
October 2024
Cureus
July 2024
General Medicine, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, IND.
Front Immunol
July 2024
Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
mSphere
July 2024
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Toxins (Basel)
May 2024
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
Microbiol Res
September 2024
Hebei Provincial Center for Clinical Laboratories, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Electronic address:
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) caused by toxigenic C. difficile is the leading cause of antimicrobial and healthcare-associated diarrhea. The pathogenicity of C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
May 2024
Division of Molecular Bacteriology, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.
Braz J Infect Dis
June 2024
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Núcleo de Microscopia e Processamento de Imagens (NEMPI), Departamento de Morfologia Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
J Clin Med
May 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43204 Reus, Spain.
Antibiotics (Basel)
May 2024
Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
infection (CDI) is an intestinal infection that causes morbidity and mortality and places significant burden and cost on the healthcare system, especially in recurrent cases. Antibiotic overuse is well recognized as the leading cause of CDI in high-risk patients, and studies have demonstrated that even short-term antibiotic exposure can cause a large and persistent disturbance to human colonic microbiota. The recovery and sustainability of the gut microbiome after dysbiosis have been associated with fewer CDI recurrences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Prim Care Community Health
May 2024
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most common and severe nosocomial infections worldwide. It can also affect healthy individuals in the community. The incidence of CDI has been on the rise globally for the past decade, necessitating a proactive approach to combat its spread; new strategies are being developed to enhance diagnostic accuracy and optimize treatment outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCan Assoc Radiol J
May 2024
Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Anaerobe
August 2024
Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address:
Clostridioides difficile infection causes pathology that ranges in severity from diarrhea to pseudomembranous colitis. Toxin A and Toxin B are the two primary virulence factors secreted by C. difficile that drive disease severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWiad Lek
May 2024
UZHHOROD NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, UZHHOROD, UKRAINE.
Urologiia
March 2024
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Department of Urology and Surgical Andrology, Moscow, Russia.
Expert Opin Drug Saf
October 2024
Department of Pharmacy, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University & Henan Cancer Hospital, Henan Engineering Research Center for Tumor Precision Medicine and Comprehensive Evaluation, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Anticancer Drug Research, Zhengzhou, China.