COVID-19 and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI): Possible implications for elderly patients

COVID-19 dramatically affects the elderly. Due to the large usage of antibiotics during the current pandemic and the gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19, the elderly population, hospitalized patients, residents in LTCFs and persons that survived the COVID-19 might be more prone to Clostridio...

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Autor principal: Spigaglia, Patrizia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32593567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102233
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description COVID-19 dramatically affects the elderly. Due to the large usage of antibiotics during the current pandemic and the gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19, the elderly population, hospitalized patients, residents in LTCFs and persons that survived the COVID-19 might be more prone to Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI). A renewed attention to CDI is necessary during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73151542020-06-25 COVID-19 and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI): Possible implications for elderly patients Spigaglia, Patrizia Anaerobe Article COVID-19 dramatically affects the elderly. Due to the large usage of antibiotics during the current pandemic and the gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19, the elderly population, hospitalized patients, residents in LTCFs and persons that survived the COVID-19 might be more prone to Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI). A renewed attention to CDI is necessary during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-08 2020-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7315154/ /pubmed/32593567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102233 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full COVID-19 and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI): Possible implications for elderly patients
title_fullStr COVID-19 and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI): Possible implications for elderly patients
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title_short COVID-19 and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI): Possible implications for elderly patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315154/
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