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Faecal pharmacokinetics of orally administered vancomycin in patients with suspected Clostridium difficile infection

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2010
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Title
Faecal pharmacokinetics of orally administered vancomycin in patients with suspected Clostridium difficile infection
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-10-363
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Authors

Milagros Gonzales, Jacques Pepin, Eric H Frost, Julie C Carrier, Stephanie Sirard, Louis-Charles Fortier, Louis Valiquette

Abstract

Oral vancomycin (125 mg qid) is recommended as treatment of severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Higher doses (250 or 500 mg qid) are sometimes recommended for patients with very severe CDI, without supporting clinical evidence. We wished to determine to what extent faecal levels of vancomycin vary according to diarrhoea severity and dosage, and whether it is rational to administer high-dose vancomycin to selected patients.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 98 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 21%
Other 18 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 11%
Professor 6 6%
Student > Master 6 6%
Other 22 22%
Unknown 16 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 12%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 11 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 17 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2024.
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#1,600,721
of 25,121,016 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#387
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#8,551
of 193,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#4
of 31 outputs
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