A comprehensive prevention strategy that attempts to address all possible routes of norovirus transmission and a strict ill employee exclusion policy are key to halting successive norovirus outbreaks.
Repeat testing of nucleic acid amplification tests is not recommended for detection of the presence of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile in adults.
There is a correlation between a high level of amyloid-producing Escherichia coli in the intestines, followed by their depletion due to prophage induction and the initiation of autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes (T1D) progression, according to research findings presented at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2019, held June 20-24, 2019 in San Francisco,…
The use of a NAAT for diagnosing Clostridium difficile infection demonstrated a significant reduced length of stay for patients compared with a multi-step enzyme immunoassay-based strategy.
Though much has been done in an effort to close them, there are still significant gaps in knowledge and research advancement on outbreaks of infection with Cyclospora cayetanensis.
An update to the American College of Gastroenterology guideline may promote use of more precise diagnostic tools and evidence-based treatments and may enhance health outcomes for patients with Crohn disease.
Symptoms return in half of patients undergoing long-term follow-up after gastric bypass.
Factors have cumulative effect on symptoms as well as on quality of life.
After molecular testing, half of all travel-acquired ESBL-producing E coli strains qualified as pathogens, despite most being classified as extraintestinal pathogenic or uropathogenic.
Among children under age 5 years with acute gastroenteritis, Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 as an adjunct to rehydration therapy did not reduce the duration of diarrhea compared with placebo.
