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Prevention of Clostridium Difficile Infection Among Hospitalized Elderly Patients Using Torani (Fermented Rice Water) and Xylitol Mixture Drink: The Study Protocol of an Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial.

Basanti Kumari Pathi, Jyoti Prakash Sahoo, Kumudini Panigrahi, Sidharth S Pattnaik, Santosh Kumar Dash, Shubhransu Patro, Debashish Mishra, Dipti Pattnaik, Manas Ranjan Behera, Manoja K Das

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Basanti Kumari PathiMicrobiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Jyoti Prakash SahooPharmacology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Kumudini PanigrahiMicrobiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Sidharth S PattnaikInternal Medicine, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Santosh Kumar DashNeurology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Shubhransu PatroInternal Medicine, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Debashish MishraOrthopaedics, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Dipti PattnaikMicrobiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Manas Ranjan BeheraPediatrics, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Manoja K DasPublic Health, The International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) Trust International, New Delhi, IND.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectives

methodsThis two-arm, open-label, randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Odisha, India. The eligible elderly hospitalized participants will be randomized into two groups in a 1:1 ratio to receive 350 ml of either

resultsAs we have not started the study, we do not have any observations yet.

conclusionsThis RCT shall document the effect of

Indexed as

clostridioides difficile infectionfermented dietgut dysbiosisgut-microbiotamicrobial colonizationprebioticsprobioticsshort chain fatty acidstoranixylitol

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PMID40636622
PMCPMC12240546

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