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ReviewRevista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia2019

Doctor, my patient has CDI and should continue to receive antibiotics. The (unresolved) risk of recurrent CDI.

I Castro, M Tasias, E Calabuig, M Salavert

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Review in Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  4. Inflammatory bowel disease andTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2023
    Review
  5. Review
  6. Characteristics, Risk Factors, and Prevalence ofInfection and drug resistance · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

I Castro
M Tasias
E Calabuig
M SalavertMiguel Salavert Lletí. Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe; Valencia. Av. Fernando Abril Martorell, nº 106; 46026-Valencia. Spain. Salavert_mig@gva.es.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recurrence rate ranges from 12% to 40% of all cases of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and proposes an exceptional clinical challenge. Conventionally, treatment options of CDI have been limited to regimes of established antibiotics (eg, pulsed/tapered vancomycin) or "improvised" alternative antibiotics (eg. teicoplanin, tigecycline, nitazoxanide or rifaximin) occasionally even in combination, but faecal microbiota transplantation is emerging as a useful and quite safe alternative. In recent years, promising new strategies have emerged for effective prevention of recurrent CDI (rCDI) including new an-timicrobials (eg, fidaxomicin) and monoclonal antibodies (eg, bezlotoxumab). Despite promising progress in this area, difficulties remain for making the best use of these resources due to uncertainty over patient selection. This positioning review describes the current epidemiology of rCDI, its clinical impact and risk factors, some of the measures used for treating and preventing rCDI, and some of the emerging treatment options. It then describes some of the barriers that need to be overcome.

Indexed as

Clostridioides difficileAnti-Bacterial AgentsClostridium InfectionsEnterocolitis, PseudomembranousHumansRecurrenceAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID31475811
PMCPMC6755365

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