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1638Clostridium difficile Strains Colonizing Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) Residents are Similar to Strains Causing Infection in both LTCF and Hospital Patients Suggesting a Shared Continuum of Transmission.

scientific article published in December 2014

2467. Inferring Strain Type Attribution from Antibiotic Resistance Profiles among E. coli Causing Healthcare-Associated Infections in the United States, 2013–2017

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

490. Comparison of Clostridium difficile Infection Outcomes by Diagnostic Testing Method

492. Long-Term Outcomes of Clostridium difficile Infection Among Medicare Beneficiaries

519. Longer Length of Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection

524National estimates of incidence, recurrence, hospitalization, and death of nursing home-onset infections — United States, 2012

529Frequent Transmission of Clostridium Difficile by Asymptomatically Colonized Long-term Care Facility Residents during Hospital Admissions.

scientific article published in December 2014

837. Prior Hospitalizations Among Cases of Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection—10 US States, 2014–2015

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

A Potential Cellular Explanation for the Increased Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection Due to Hypoalbuminemia: Reply Di Bella et al

scientific article

A case-control study of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: no role for proton pump inhibitors.

scientific article

A hospital outbreak of diarrhea due to an emerging epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile

scientific article published in December 2006

A hospital-based prevalence survey of bloodstream infections in febrile patients in Malawi: implications for diagnosis and therapy

scientific article published on 13 April 2000

A multistate outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infection associated with contaminated intravenous magnesium sulfate from a compounding pharmacy

scientific article published on 24 July 2007

A national survey of severe influenza-associated complications among children and adults, 2003-2004.

scientific article published on 25 April 2005

A national survey of testing and management of asymptomatic carriage of C. difficile

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Active Surveillance and Isolation of Asymptomatic Carriers of Clostridium difficile at Hospital Admission: Containing What Lies Under the Waterline.

scientific article

An association between reduced susceptibility to daptomycin and reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

An epidemic, toxin gene-variant strain of Clostridium difficile

scientific article

An outbreak of neonatal deaths in Brazil associated with contaminated intravenous fluids.

scientific article published on 22 May 2002

Antibiotic multi-drug-resistance of Escherichia coli causing device- and procedure-related infections in the United States reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), 2013-2017

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Assessing the social cost and benefits of a national requirement establishing antibiotic stewardship programs to prevent infection in US hospitals

article published in 2019

Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005.

scientific article

Assessment of public health perspectives on responding to an emerging pathogen: carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

scientific article published in July 2013

Assessment of the Overall and Multidrug-Resistant Organism Bioburden on Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities.

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

scientific article

Association between Antibiotic Use and Hospital-Onset Clostridioidesdifficile Infection in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals, 2006-2012: an Ecologic Analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Attributable burden of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection: a propensity score matching study.

scientific article published on 19 April 2013

Attributable outcomes of endemic Clostridium difficile-associated disease in nonsurgical patients

scientific article published on July 2008

Automated surveillance of Clostridium difficile infections using BioSense

scientific article

Bench-to-bedside review: Clostridium difficile colitis

scientific article

Building communication networks: international network for the study and prevention of emerging antimicrobial resistance

scientific article

Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities in Monroe County, New York ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2012

Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Burden of Clostridium difficile infection in the United States

scientific article

Burden of Nursing Home-Onset Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States: Estimates of Incidence and Patient Outcomes

scientific article

CDC central-line bloodstream infection prevention efforts produced net benefits of at least $640 Million during 1990-2008.

scientific article published in June 2014

Carriage rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) depend on anatomic location, the number of sites cultured, culture methods, and the distribution of clonotypes.

scientific article

Causes, Burden, and Prevention of Infection

Changes in the epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units in US hospitals, 1992-2003.

scientific article published on 19 December 2005

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).

scientific article published in March 2018

Clinical importance of increased sensitivity of BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles

scientific article published on September 1996

Clinical practice guidelines for Clostridium difficile infection in adults: 2010 update by the society for healthcare epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the infectious diseases society of America (IDSA).

scientific article

Clostridium difficile in retail meat products, USA, 2007

scientific article published on May 2009

Clostridium difficile infection among children across diverse US geographic locations

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Clostridium difficile infection among children with cancer

scientific article published in July 2011

Clostridium difficile infection in Ohio hospitals and nursing homes during 2006

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Clostridium difficile infection in outpatients, Maryland and Connecticut, USA, 2002-2007.

scientific article published in October 2011

Clostridium difficile infection in patients discharged from US short-stay hospitals, 1996-2003

scientific article

Clostridium difficile infections in children

scientific article published on February 2009

Clostridium difficile strains from community-associated infections

scientific article

Clostridium difficile--associated disease in a setting of endemicity: identification of novel risk factors

scientific article

Clostridium difficile-associated disease in New Jersey hospitals, 2000-2004.

scientific article published on March 2007

Clostridium difficile-associated disease: new challenges from an established pathogen.

scientific article

Clostridium difficile: responding to a new threat from an old enemy.

scientific article

Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea: an emerging threat to pregnant women

article by Nadine Rouphael et al published June 2008 in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Cluster of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome among Toronto healthcare workers after implementation of infection control precautions: a case series.

scientific article

Cluster of necrotizing enterocolitis in a neonatal intensive care unit: New Mexico, 2007.

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

Colonization of HIV-infected outpatients in Taiwan with methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in July 2003

Colonization of human immunodeficiency virus-infected outpatients in Taiwan with Candida species

scientific article

Community-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia in adult patients in Taiwan

scientific article

Community-acquired bacteremia in Zimbabwe and the global cost of contaminated blood cultures

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Comparison of BACTEC MYCO/F LYTIC and WAMPOLE ISOLATOR 10 (lysis-centrifugation) systems for detection of bacteremia, mycobacteremia, and fungemia in a developing country

scientific article published on August 2000

Comparison of seven techniques for typing international epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile: restriction endonuclease analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR-ribotyping, multilocus sequence typing, multilocus variable-number tandem-rep

scientific article

Complete restriction of fluoroquinolone use to control an outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection at a community hospital

scientific article

Confronting Clostridium difficile in inpatient health care facilities

scientific article published on 9 October 2007

Controlled clinical comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 blood culture systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in adults

scientific article

Controlled clinical laboratory comparison of BACTEC plus aerobic/F resin medium with BacT/Alert aerobic FAN medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia

scientific article published on January 1997

Controlled comparison of BacT/ALERT FAN aerobic medium and BATEC fungal blood culture medium for detection of fungemia

scientific article published on February 2001

Controlled comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

Correlates of antibiotic use in Taiwan hospitals

scientific article

Current status of Clostridium difficile infection epidemiology

scientific article

Detection of Clostridioides difficile by Real-time PCR in Young Children Does Not Predict Disease

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Determinants of Clostridium difficile Infection Incidence Across Diverse United States Geographic Locations

scientific article

Determining the significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures at a community hospital: a role for species and strain identification

scientific article

Diagnosing an Infection Control Risk

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI).

scientific article published in January 2016

Digging Deep in the Microbiome to Diagnose Clostridioides difficile Infection

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Dissemination of an Enterococcus Inc18-Like vanA plasmid associated with vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Dysarthria and a numb hand in an elderly woman

scientific article

Editorial Commentary: The Dawning of Microbiome Remediation for Addressing Antibiotic Resistance

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Editorial Commentary: looking to the future: vertical vs horizontal prevention of Clostridium difficile infections

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Editorial commentary: climbing the evidentiary hierarchy for environmental infection control

scientific article published on 5 October 2012

Effect of nucleic acid amplification testing on population-based incidence rates of Clostridium difficile infection

scientific article

Effects of short- and long-course antibiotics on the lower intestinal microbiome as they relate to traveller's diarrhea

scientific article published on April 2017

Emergence of reduced susceptibility and resistance to fluoroquinolones in Escherichia coli in Taiwan and contributions of distinct selective pressures

scientific article

Epidemiology of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, 2009 through 2011.

scientific article published on July 2013

Evaluation of Clostridium difficile-associated disease pressure as a risk factor for C difficile-associated disease

scientific article published on May 2007

Evaluation of organizational culture among different levels of healthcare staff participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

Fecal Microbiota Transplantations: Where Are We, Where Are We Going, and What Is the Role of the Clinical Laboratory?

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Fever and human immunodeficiency virus infection as sentinels for emerging mycobacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients >/=15 years old, Bangkok

scientific article published on July 1999

Foundations of the severe acute respiratory syndrome preparedness and response plan for healthcare facilities

scientific article

Hand hygiene in the new millennium: drawing the distinction between efficacy and effectiveness

scientific article

Healthcare personnel perceptions of hand hygiene monitoring technology.

scientific article published on 20 September 2011

Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.

scientific article

Hospital-level high-risk antibiotic use in relation to hospital-associated Clostridioides difficile infections: Retrospective analysis of 2016-2017 data from US hospitals

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Hospitalization for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

ICD-9 codes and surveillance for Clostridium difficile-associated disease

scientific article published on October 2006

Identification of population at risk for future Clostridium difficile infection following hospital discharge to be targeted for vaccine trials

scientific article

Identification of reduced fluoroquinolone susceptibility in Escherichia coli: a herald for emerging resistance

scientific article published in December 2001

Immune determinants of organism and outcome in febrile hospitalized Thai patients with bloodstream infections

scientific article

Impact of hydrogen peroxide vapor room decontamination on Clostridium difficile environmental contamination and transmission in a healthcare setting

scientific article

Improving Antimicrobial Use: Longitudinal Assessment of an Antimicrobial Team Including a Clinical Pharmacist

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Improving antimicrobial use in the hospital setting by providing usage feedback to prescribing physicians

scientific article

Increasing blood culture use at US hospital emergency department visits, 2001 to 2004.

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Infection control in the multidrug-resistant era: tending the human microbiome

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Intestinal Carriage of Third-Generation Cephalosporin-Resistant and Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Healthy US Children.

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Intestinal microbiome disruption in patients in a long-term acute care hospital: A case for development of microbiome disruption indices to improve infection prevention.

scientific article

Lack of Evidence for Toxin Immunoassay-Negative Patients as a Significant Source of Clostridium difficile Transmission at an Academic Medical Center

scientific article published in 2016

Lack of SARS transmission among healthcare workers, United States

scientific article published in February 2004

Late recognition of SARS in nosocomial outbreak, Toronto

scientific article published in February 2005

Letter in Response to "Questionable validity of the catheter-associated urinary tract infection metric used for value-based purchasing".

scientific article

Life-threatening sepsis caused by Burkholderia cepacia from contaminated intravenous flush solutions prepared by a compounding pharmacy in another state

scientific article published on 19 June 2006

Line-associated bloodstream infections in pediatric intensive-care-unit patients associated with a needleless device and intermittent intravenous therapy

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Linking antimicrobial use to nosocomial infections: the role of a combined laboratory-epidemiology approach

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Management of persistent bacteremia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a survey of infectious diseases consultants

scientific article published on 24 July 2006

Molecular epidemiology of emerging reduced susceptibility to fluoroquinolones in Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Moxifloxacin therapy as a risk factor for Clostridium difficile-associated disease during an outbreak: attempts to control a new epidemic strain

scientific article published on 25 January 2007

Multicenter study of surveillance for hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection by the use of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes

scientific article published on March 2010

Multicenter study of the impact of community-onset Clostridium difficile infection on surveillance for C. difficile infection

scientific article

Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections in U.S. Hospitalized Patients, 2012-2017

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Multidrug-Resistant Infections in U.S. Hospitals. Reply

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Multistate outbreak of Burkholderia cenocepacia colonization and infection associated with the use of intrinsically contaminated alcohol-free mouthwash

scientific article published on 9 October 2007

National estimates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in critical care patients.

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Oerskovia xanthineolytica bacteremia in an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia

scientific article published in April 1994

Outbreak of Acinetobacter spp. bloodstream infections in a nursery associated with contaminated aerosols and air conditioners

scientific article published in 1998

Outbreak of Enterococcus gallinarum infections after total knee arthroplasty

scientific article published in April 2008

Peripartum transmission of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Perspectives on Federal Funding for State Health Care-Associated Infection Programs: Achievements, Barriers, and Implications for Sustainability

scientific article published on 07 May 2014

Point-Counterpoint: Active Surveillance for Carriers of Toxigenic Clostridium difficile Should Be Performed To Guide Prevention Efforts

scientific article published in 2018

Possible SARS coronavirus transmission during cardiopulmonary resuscitation ⬇️

journal article published in 2004

Possible seasonality of Clostridium difficile in retail meat, Canada

scientific article published on May 2009

Predicting the risk for hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection (HO-CDI) at the time of inpatient admission: HO-CDI risk score

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Prevalence of Clostridium difficile environmental contamination and strain variability in multiple health care facilities

scientific article

Prevalence of probiotic use among inpatients: A descriptive study of 145 U.S. hospitals

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Proficiency in detecting vancomycin resistance in enterococci among clinical laboratories in Santiago, Chile

scientific article published in November 1999

Proficiency of clinical laboratories in and near Monterrey, Mexico, to detect vancomycin-resistant enterococci

scientific article published on January 1999

Quinupristin-Dalfopristin–ResistantEnterococcus faeciumon Chicken and in Human Stool Specimens ⬇️

scientific article published on October 18, 2001

Recommendations for surveillance of Clostridium difficile-associated disease

scientific article published on 25 January 2007

Reexamining methods and messaging for hand hygiene in the era of increasing Clostridium difficile colonization and infection

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Reply to Collins and Riley

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Reply to Fabre et al

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Risk Factors for Community-Associated Infection in Children

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: A Case-Control Study.

scientific article

Risk factors for SARS transmission from patients requiring intubation: a multicentre investigation in Toronto, Canada

scientific article

Risk factors for and estimated incidence of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, North Carolina, USA

scientific article

Risk factors for community-associated Clostridioides difficile infection in young children

scientific article published in January 2019

Risk of Subsequent Sepsis within 90 Days of a Previous Hospital Stay by Type of Antibiotic Exposure

scientific article

SARS and pregnancy: a case report

scientific article published in February 2004

SARS in healthcare facilities, Toronto and Taiwan

scientific article

Seasonal variation of Acinetobacter infections: 1987-1996. Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus, 2003-04 influenza season

scientific article

Short- and long-term attributable costs of Clostridium difficile-associated disease in nonsurgical inpatients

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Staphylococcus aureus-associated skin and soft tissue infections in ambulatory care

scientific article

Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 Update

scientific article

Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Deaths, December 2020

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Taiwan, 1998.

scientific article

The Challenges of Tracking Clostridium difficile to Its Source in Hospitalized Patients

scientific article published in 2019

The burden of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections in US hospitals, 2003 to 2004.

scientific article published on 27 May 2008

The challenges posed by reemerging Clostridium difficile infection

scientific article

The changing spectrum of clostridium difficile associated disease: implications for dentistry

scientific article published on January 2008

The cost-benefit of federal investment in preventing Clostridium difficile infections through the use of a multifaceted infection control and antimicrobial stewardship program.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

The roles of Clostridium difficile and norovirus among gastroenteritis-associated deaths in the United States, 1999-2007.

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

The status of antimicrobial resistance in Taiwan among Gram-positive pathogens: the Taiwan Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (TSAR) programme, 2000.

scientific article published in April 2004

The status of antimicrobial resistance in Taiwan among gram-negative pathogens: the Taiwan surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (TSAR) program, 2000.

scientific article published in March 2004

The use of antibiotics critical to human medicine in food-producing animals in Taiwan

scientific article published in June 2001

Toxic shock associated with Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium perfringens after medical and spontaneous abortion

scientific article

Toxin Enzyme Immunoassays Detect Clostridioides difficile Infection with Greater Severity and Higher Recurrence Rates

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Toxin production by an emerging strain of Clostridium difficile associated with outbreaks of severe disease in North America and Europe

scientific article published in The Lancet

Toxinotype V Clostridium difficile in humans and food animals

scientific article published on July 2008

Transmission of Clostridium difficile from asymptomatically colonized or infected long-term care facility residents

article

Trends in U.S. Burden of Clostridioides difficile Infection and Outcomes

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Trends in antimicrobial resistance in health care-associated pathogens and effect on treatment

scientific article published in January 2006

Uncovering the role of antibiotics in the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms

scientific article published in April 2015

Undiagnosed cases of fatal Clostridium-associated toxic shock in Californian women of childbearing age.

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article

Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia among hospital inpatients in less developed countries

scientific article published on October 1999

Use and abuse of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in hospitals in Taiwan

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Using electronic health information to risk-stratify rates of Clostridium difficile infection in US hospitals

article

Utility of a commercial PCR assay and a clinical prediction rule for detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in asymptomatic carriers

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Vancomycin intermediate and resistant Staphylococcus aureus. What the nephrologist needs to know.

scientific article

Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States, 2002-2006.

scientific article published in March 2008

Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with Inc18-like vanA plasmids in Michigan

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci from humans and retail chickens in Taiwan with unique VanB phenotype-vanA genotype incongruence

scientific article

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci outside the health-care setting: prevalence, sources, and public health implications

scientific article published on July 1997

Vancomycin-resistant staphylococci and enterococci: epidemiology and control

scientific article

Virulence and Clinical Outcomes in Clostridium difficile Infection: A Complex Business ⬇️

scientific article published on November 29, 2012

Vital Signs: Containment of Novel Multidrug-Resistant Organisms and Resistance Mechanisms - United States, 2006-2017.

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Vital Signs: Epidemiology and Recent Trends in Methicillin-Resistant and in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections — United States

Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals - United States, 2014.

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals - United States, 2014.

scientific article published in July 2016

Vital signs: improving antibiotic use among hospitalized patients

scientific article published in March 2014

Wrestling SARS from uncertainty

scientific article

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