Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2011/04 -2015/03
Author : NAKMAURA Atsushi; KATO Hideaki
In Japan, establishement of accurate methods of diagnosis, tratment ,or nosocomial infection prevention measures against Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is required, but the clinical informations have not yet been fully revealed. For the purpose of presenting the important reference data for constracting CDI practical guidelines, we carried out analysis of CDI cases and those crinical isolates.
As a result, it had not been observed the correlation between possessing toxin gene type and clinical severity. Drug resistance to the current therapeutic agents was not observed, and the difference by administered drug, the dosage, or administration period had not seen. Nucleic acid amplification test of toxin gene showed high diagnostic accuracy compared with the current rapid diagnostic method, and in the future, it could be expected the usefulness of CDI diagnosis.