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ReviewJournal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society2021

Translational Aspects of the Immunology of Clostridioides difficile Infection: Implications for Pediatric Populations.

Larry K Kociolek, Joseph P Zackular, Tor Savidge

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Review in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Larry K KociolekDepartment of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Joseph P ZackularDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3228-3055
Tor SavidgeDepartment of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.

Funding

Decoding Antibiotic-induced Susceptibility to Clostridium difficile InfectionU01AI124290 · NIAID · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BRITTON, ROBERT A, GAREY, KEVIN W · 2016 to 2020
$7.9M
Molecular interactions in the gut microbiota during early life colonization and perturbationR35GM138369 · NIGMS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Joseph Paul Zackular · 2020 to 2026
$2.7M
The Impact of Vancomycin-Resistant Entercoccus on Clostridium difficile InfectionK22AI137220 · NIAID · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI ZACKULAR, JOSEPH PAUL · 2019 to 2020
$270k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNIAID NIH HHS K22 AI137220NIAID NIH HHS L40 AI147162NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI124290NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138369NIGMS NIH HHS R35-GM138369NIH HHS R03-AI149000Texas Medical Center Digestive Disease Center P30-DK56338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridioides difficile has become the most common healthcare-associated pathogen in the United States, leading the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to classify C. difficile as an "urgent" public health threat that requires "urgent and aggressive action." This call to action has led to new discoveries that have advanced our understanding of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) immunology and clinical development of immunologic-based therapies for CDI prevention. However, CDI immunology research has been limited in pediatric populations, and several unanswered questions remain regarding the function of host immune response in pediatric CDI pathogenesis and the potential role of immunologic-based therapies in children. This review summarizes the innate and adaptive immune responses previously characterized in animals and humans and provides a current update on clinical development of immunologic-based therapies for CDI prevention in adults and children. These data inform the future research needs for children.

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Clostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsAnimalsChildClostridioidesHumansUnited StatesantibodyC. difficileimmunitypediatricvaccine

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PMID34791392
PMCPMC8600028

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