Diagnosis and management of Clostridium difficile infection.

Dupont, Herbert L

Dupont, Herbert L.

Affiliation

Dupont HL; Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Texas School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; and Internal Medicine Service, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: herbert.l.dupont@uth.tmc.edu.

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol ; 11(10): 1216-23; quiz e73, 2013 Oct.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23542332

Subject(s)

Clostridioides difficile/isolation & purification; Clostridium Infections/diagnosis; Clostridium Infections/drug therapy; Administration, Oral; Aminoglycosides/therapeutic use; Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use; Biological Therapy/methods; Clostridium Infections/microbiology; Colectomy; False Positive Reactions; Fidaxomicin; Humans; Immunotherapy/methods; Metronidazole/therapeutic use; Molecular Diagnostic Techniques/methods; Vancomycin/therapeutic use

Key words

Antibiotic-associated Diarrhea; CDI; Clostridium difficile Infection; Clostridium difficile infection; Fidaxomicin; GDH; Metronidazole; Microbiome; NAP1; North American pulse-field type 1; Oral Vancomycin; PPV; RT-PCR; glutamate dehydrogenase; positive predictive value; real-time polymerase chain reaction

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Clostridioides difficile / Clostridium Infections Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies Language: En Journal: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol Year: 2013 Type: Article

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