Clostridium difficile

Fecal bacteriotherapy is a relatively new treatment option for those suffering from new or recurrent gastrointestinal (GI) infections, particularly Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Fecal bacteriotherapy, or fecal micro biota transplantation (FMT), involves introducing healthy, donor stool into a client suffering from a GI infection. C. diff is a potentially life-threatening bacterium that presents inside a patient’s GI tract causing persistent diarrhea (Rohlke & Stollman, 2012). CDI often

blood, skin, or organ systems. These infections can arise due to the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, which can result in the microorganisms becoming more resistant to antibiotic therapy. Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus and Clostridium difficile are examples of this kind of infection. Health care employees need to know the different types of hospital acquired infections and how they are spread to be able to effectively prevent them. The priority nursing diagnosis of hospital acquired

Reflective Essay Word count 1,000 Placement , Infection Control Team Dip/HE Adult Nursing 02/09 This reflective essay is based upon my experience working alongside the Infection Prevention and Control Support Nurses at the general hospital. As part of my learning experience as a 2nd year student nurse is to accompany the infection control nurses when visiting the wards The role of the IPCSN involved teaching, educating and advising all disciplines across

Clostridium difficile, also known as C. diff, occurs when the healthy bacteria in the gut are destroyed by the overuse or misuse of antibiotics. The C. diff bacteria takes over the area where the healthy bacteria once lived. These harmful bacteria emit toxins

difficile in that when antibiotic doses were lessened, the infection would reoccur. The continued antibiotic use led to the emergence of other resistant bacteria as well. After the fecal transplant, the patient did not have a relapse for two years until his

infections like boils and cellulitis. Most staph infections are not life threatening but they can become so in the form of sepsis, pneumonia and osteomyelitis (Minnesota Department of Health Fact Sheet, 2010) There are food borne bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum are anaerobic, rod shaped bacteria that causes the disease botulism. Botulism is a life-threatening disease that affects the nervous system it is commonly associated with improperly done home canning. (WHO, 2016) While there is no argument

Have you ever been to the doctor for the seasonal flu and walked out of the clinic with a prescription for antibiotics? I have. Actually, some of us, including me, become very upset if the doctor fails to prescribe antibiotics for us. Since the discovery of antibiotics, they have become the miracle treatment for all types of infections, specific and non-specific. Even though antibiotics are only effective when treating bacterial infection, many seek them for viral infections such as the common cold

Since it has been determined by researchers that causative agents of infective endocarditis play a major role in treatment, it is important to know what exact causes those are. In a study by Zauner et al. (2013), “IE-causing pathogens were Staphylococcus aureus, viridans streptococci, enterococci, streptococci, coagulase-negative staphylococci, and miscellaneous pathogens” (637). Depending upon the organism that infects the heart, there are different outcomes. For example, those infected by staphylococcus

million people infected with an antimicrobial resistant bacteria and out of two million individuals, 23,000 of those people die each year. (7) Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a reported nosocomial, antimicrobial resistant bacteria that infects 250,000 individuals each year. (7, 8) Out of the 250,000 individuals infected with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), there is a recorded 14,000 deaths. (7, 8) Bacterial resistance is an emerging and ongoing public health threat that causes significantly

with Clostridium difficile infections. While in the procedure, fecal matter is gathered from the stool of a carefully selected, healthy donor and transplanted into the colon of a sufferer using a variety of approaches, which includes orally-administered capsules, colonoscopy, or endoscopy. For this trial, investigators used a donor microbiome that comprised 1,000 different species of gut bacteria, and implemented a therapy regimen formerly shown to be efficacious in dealing with C. difficile infection