Clostridium difficile infection: epidemiology, diagnosis and understanding transmission

JSH Martin, TM Monaghan, MH Wilcox - … reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to affect patients in hospitals and communities
worldwide. The spectrum of clinical disease ranges from mild diarrhoea to toxic megacolon …

Antibiotic Resistance in selected emerging bacterial foodborne Pathogens—An issue of concern?

K Grudlewska-Buda, J Bauza-Kaszewska… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance (AR) and multidrug resistance (MDR) have been confirmed for all major
foodborne pathogens: Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli and Listeria …

Dissemination of Clostridium difficile in food and the environment: Significant sources of C. difficile community‐acquired infection?

K Warriner, C Xu, M Habash, S Sultan… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Clostridium difficile is a significant pathogen with over 300 000 cases reported in North
America annually. Previously, it was thought that C. difficile was primarily a clinically …

Non-human C. difficile Reservoirs and Sources: Animals, Food, Environment

C Rodriguez Diaz, C Seyboldt, M Rupnik - Updates on Clostridium difficile …, 2018 - Springer
Clostridium difficile is ubiquitous and is found in humans, animals and in variety of
environments. The substantial overlap of ribotypes between all three main reservoirs …

The Environment, Farm Animals and Foods as Sources of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Humans

D Bolton, P Marcos - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recent discovery of the same Clostridioides difficile ribotypes associated with human
infection in a broad range of environments, animals and foods, coupled with an ever …

Faecal microbiota characterisation of horses using 16 rdna barcoded pyrosequencing, and carriage rate of clostridium difficile at hospital admission

C Rodriguez, B Taminiau, B Brévers, V Avesani… - BMC microbiology, 2015 - Springer
Background The equine faecal microbiota is very complex and remains largely unknown,
while interspecies interactions have an important contribution to animal health. Clostridium …

Clostridium difficile in Food and Animals: A Comprehensive Review

C Rodriguez, B Taminiau, J Van Broeck… - … Infectious Diseases and …, 2016 - Springer
Zoonoses are infections or diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans
through direct contact, close proximity or the environment. Clostridium difficile is ubiquitous …

Nanobodies: The potential application in bacterial treatment and diagnosis

S Yu, L Zhang, A Wang, Y **, D Zhou - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
An infection caused by bacteria is one of the main factors that poses a threat to human
health. A recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted that …

Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in infants in Oxfordshire, UK: Risk factors for colonization and carriage, and genetic overlap with regional C. difficile infection …

N Stoesser, DW Eyre, TP Quan, H Godwin, G Pill… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Approximately 30–40% of children< 1 year of age are Clostridium difficile
colonized, and may represent a reservoir for adult C. difficile infections (CDI). Risk factors for …

Fecal shedding of Salmonella spp., Clostridium perfringens, and Clostridioides difficile in dogs fed raw meat-based diets in Brazil and their owners' motivation

FM Viegas, CP Ramos, RGC Xavier, EO Lopes… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The present study aimed to explore the motivations of Brazilian dog owners and their
knowledge about the risks related to raw meat-based diets (RMBD) as well as to evaluate …