Clostridium difficile in Children: To Treat or Not to Treat?

Clostridium difficile infection has been increasing since 2000 in children and in adults. Frequent antibiotics use, comorbidity, and the development of hypervirulent strains have increased the risk of infection. Despite the high carriage rates of C. difficile, infants rarely develop clinical infecti...

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Autor principal: Shim, Jung Ok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2014
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4107224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061582
http://dx.doi.org/10.5223/pghn.2014.17.2.80
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description Clostridium difficile infection has been increasing since 2000 in children and in adults. Frequent antibiotics use, comorbidity, and the development of hypervirulent strains have increased the risk of infection. Despite the high carriage rates of C. difficile, infants rarely develop clinical infection. Discontinuing antibiotics and supportive management usually leads to resolution of disease. Antibiotics use should be stratified depending on the patient's age and severity of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-41072242014-07-24 Clostridium difficile in Children: To Treat or Not to Treat? Shim, Jung Ok Pediatr Gastroenterol Hepatol Nutr Review Article Clostridium difficile infection has been increasing since 2000 in children and in adults. Frequent antibiotics use, comorbidity, and the development of hypervirulent strains have increased the risk of infection. Despite the high carriage rates of C. difficile, infants rarely develop clinical infection. Discontinuing antibiotics and supportive management usually leads to resolution of disease. Antibiotics use should be stratified depending on the patient's age and severity of the disease. The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2014-06 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4107224/ /pubmed/25061582 http://dx.doi.org/10.5223/pghn.2014.17.2.80 Text en Copyright © 2014 by The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Clostridium difficile in Children: To Treat or Not to Treat?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4107224/
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