ALLMedicine™ Infectious Diarrhea Center

Mar 26th, 2022 - Clostridioides difficile is still one of the most common causes of hospital-acquired infectious diarrhea (CDI), and the incidence of CDI is one of the indicators that allows conclusions to be derived on the correctness of antibiotic administration...

Mar 13th, 2022 - Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (NR) use has not yet been described in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) with mild COVID-19. The objective was to evaluate outcomes among SOTR and describe the drug-drug interaction of NR. This is an IRB-approved, re...

Feb 17th, 2022 - Predictively diagnosing infectious diseases helps in providing better treatment and enhances the prevention and control of such diseases. This study uses actual data from a hospital. A multiple infectious disease diagnostic model (MIDDM) is design...

Jan 14th, 2022 - Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea that develops in patients after hospitalization during antibiotic administration. It has also become a big issue in community-acquired diarrhea. The emergence of hypervirulent strai...

Jan 11th, 2022 - As the prevalence of complex inflammatory bowel disease and extraintestinal manifestations continue to rise, more patients are requiring complex treatment regimens. In some cases, patients may require more than one biologic agent to target differe...

Dec 2nd, 2017 - These guidelines are intended for use by healthcare professionals who care for children and adults with suspected or confirmed infectious diarrhea. They are not intended to replace physician judgement regarding specific patients or clinical or pub...

Jan 5th, 2022 - Abstract Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of healthcare-associated infectious diarrhea among adults in industrialized countries. In addition to diarrhea, C. difficile infection (CDI) may also result in serious complications such as s...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - Mytesi ®(crofelemer) is an FDA-approved anti-diarrheal drug indicated for the symptomatic relief of non-infectious diarrhea in adult patients with HIV/AIDS on combination anti-retroviral therapy (CART). Crofelemer, a first-in-class intraluminally ...

May 6th, 2021 - Most cancer patients have a compromised nutritional status, 80% are malnourished at the time of the initial diagnosis. It is known that in patients with airway and digestive cancer the risk of malnutrition is increased, due to changes caused by th...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - In preventing antibiotic-induced diarrhea in double blind placebo controlled clinical trials it was found protective effect of probiotics containing S. boulardii and Enterococcus faecium. Also in preventing infectious diseases associated with Clos...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - The forms of iron currently available have serious adverse effects that limit their use in addressing prevalent iron deficiency. Iron-supplementation programs have been frustrated by the serious side effects of inorganic forms of iron, which, due ...

Jan 19th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using a multiplex gastrointestinal PCR (GI-PCR) panel in children with infectious diarrhea can speed up appropriate prescription of antibiotics, a new study suggests. "The GI-PCR's results impacted the medical managemen...

Sep 22nd, 2020 - Oral fluids and electrolyte replacement are generally adequate for the treatment of norovirus infections. In cases of severe volume depletion, intravenous fluid and electrolyte resuscitation may be necessary. Symptomatic relief can be achieved usi...

Nov 22nd, 2019 - If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the average soldier in the American Civil War lived just down the street from hell. In a land at war, before the formal tenets of germ theory had spread beyond the confines of Louis Pasteur’s laboratory in.

Sep 19th, 2018 - Oral antibiotic therapy formed the basis for treating Clostridium difficile infection in children with cancer and pediatric stem-cell transplant recipients, according to a new clinical guideline from the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario. Patien...

Sep 18th, 2018 - The mass marketing of unregulated probiotics for general human health is coming under fire. Despite some benefit of selected strains in defined gastrointestinal contexts such as post-infectious diarrhea, post-colectomy pouchitis, and remission mai...