COMBINATION OF ANTIBIOTICS AND PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR-RELATED CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION

• At: AbuDhabi (United Arab Emirates) (2019)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS-125
• By: SUNG, I-Cheng (Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Division of Pharmacy, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): I-Cheng Sung: Division of Pharmacy, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung City, China Taiwan
  Hsin-Hui Wang: Department of Internal Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung City, China Taiwan
  Hsiu-O Hsu: Division of Pharmacy, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung City, China Taiwan
  Chi-Wen Chiang: Division of Pharmacy, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung City, China Taiwan
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  The prevalence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) displays a high relevance for constraining antibiotics-associated diarrhea and the odds ratio of the comparison between treatments with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and without PPIs for CDI risk is 1.99. We present a case of CDI colitis-associated with antibiotic and PPI use.

  Methods

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