Proton pump inhibitors’ use correlates with an increase in rate and severity of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection, a Pharmacotherapy study finds. Researchers examined 41,663 patients ...

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis and systematic review of studies from the Medline, Web of Science, Scopus and Embase databases. They searched for subject headings and text words related to C.

Health-care providers that treat patients who use proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and experience diarrhea that does not improve, should consider the bacterium Clostridium difficile in the differential ...

Antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors may not be the best mix, according to a study published Jan. 24 in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. People who took an antibiotic when they were taking ...

Among patients with community-associated Clostridium difficile infection, more than a third had not used antibiotics in the 12 weeks prior to diagnosis and more than half reported limited or no health ...

A search of PubMed from 1966 to February 2013 was conducted using the following key terms: PPI, omeprazole, esomeprazole, pantoprazole, lansoprazole, dexlansoprazole ...