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Efficacy of Secondary Prophylaxis With Vancomycin for Preventing Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infections

Alex Carignan, Sébastien Poulin, Philippe Martin, Annie‐Claude Labbé, Louis Valiquette, Hamed Al-Bachari, Louis-Philippe Montpetit

The American Journal of Gastroenterology · 2016 · 84 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

Oral vancomycin appears as an effective strategy for decreasing the risk of further CDI recurrence in patients with a history of recurrent CDI who are re-exposed to antibiotics.

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Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent <i>Clostridium difficile</i>

Els van Nood, Anne Vrieze, Max Nieuwdorp et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2013 · 3.6K citations · Full text

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)

Stuart H. Cohen, Dale N. Gerding, Stuart Johnson et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2010 · 2.9K citations

Healthcare Epidemiology, Antibiotics, Clostridium Difficile Infection +15

A Predominantly Clonal Multi-Institutional Outbreak of<i>Clostridium difficile</i>–Associated Diarrhea with High Morbidity and Mortality

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

Michel Warny, Aiqi Fang, George Killgore et al. · The Lancet · 2005 · 1.4K citations

Microbial Toxin, Medical Microbiology, Pathogenicity +11

Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in a region of Quebec from 1991 to 2003: a changing pattern of disease severity

Jean‐Louis Pépin · Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2004 · 1.1K citations · Full text