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ReviewCurrent infectious disease reports2017

Recent Issues in Pediatric Clostridium difficile Infection.

Jason A Clayton, Philip Toltzis

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Review in Current infectious disease reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Microorganisms · 2024
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  2. Infection withAccess microbiology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason A ClaytonDivision of Pediatric Critical Care, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA. jason.clayton@uhhospitals.org.
Philip ToltzisDivision of Pediatric Critical Care, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWe focus on two recent aspects of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in children, namely the emergence of community-associated CDI (CA-CDI) and the incidence and prevention of recurrent CDI. RECENT

findingsCurrent surveys suggest that a large proportion of all pediatric CDI is acquired in the community. Risk factors and frequency estimates of pediatric CA-CDI, however, are confounded in babies and toddlers by a high rate of asymptomatic excretion, whose detection likely is exaggerated by the wide use of highly sensitive nucleic acid amplification tests. Recurrent diarrhea occurs in up to 25% of children with CDI. Preventative strategies for recurrent CDI in adults, namely pulse and taper antibiotic dosing, use of anti-CDI drugs with mild effect on the colonic microbiome, fecal microbiota transplantation, and passive immune therapy, currently are being tested in children. Future studies are required to better characterize community acquisition of CDI in children and to define the safety and effectiveness of preventative strategies for recurrent CDI.

Indexed as

Childhood diarrheaClostridium difficilePediatrics

Identifiers

PMID29110105
OpenAlexW2767703231

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