S1816 Rare Case of Toxin Positive C. difficile Infection Managed With Psyllium

Clostridium difficile Infection Caused by Binary Toxin–Positive Strains

To the Editor: With interest, we read the article by Bacci et al. in which they conclude that Clostridium difficile strains containing the binary toxin gene were associated with a higher case-fatality rate after 30 days, even when the analysis was stratified for PCR ribotype (1). Although this was an appealing conclusion, in our opinion the study was severely limited by selection bias and confo...

construction of vector fields with positive lyapunov exponents

in this thesis our aim is to construct vector field in r3 for which the corresponding one-dimensional maps have certain discontinuities. two kinds of vector fields are considered, the first the lorenz vector field, and the second originally introced here. the latter have chaotic behavior and motivate a class of one-parameter families of maps which have positive lyapunov exponents for an open in...

Enzyme Immunoassay for C. difficile Toxin Reduces Lab ID Events but Fails to Detect Clinically Significant C. difficile Infection

Management of C. Difficile Infection

LEVEL OF RECOMMENDATION DEFINITIONS  Level 1: Convincingly justifiable based on available scientific information alone. Usually based on Class I data or strong Class II evidence if randomized testing is inappropriate. Conversely, low quality or contradictory Class I data may be insufficient to support a Level I recommendation.  Level 2: Reasonably justifiable based on available scientific evi...

Endogenous Serum IgG Antibodies to Clostridium difficile Toxin B Are Associated with Protection against C. difficile Infection Recurrence