Clostridium butyricum and Reduced Clostridioides difficile Infection

• Association between Nutrition Protocol with Clostridium butyricum MIYAIRI 588 and Reduced Incidence of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Critically Ill Patients: A Single-Center, Before-and-After Study.

  • 2022-06-01
  • RCT · n = 1,802
  • Surgical Infections 23(5)
  • • Takeaki Sato
    • D. Kudo
    • S. Kushimoto

  • PubMed: 35647891
  • DOI: 10.1089/sur.2022.030

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Clostridioides difficile Infection

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial

  There were 14 (1.9%) patients with CDI in the control group and one (0.1%) patient in the protocol group (p < 0.01).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes