Lactobacillus plantarum 299v and Reduced Clostridium Difficile Infection Incidence

• Clostridium Difficile Infection in the Nephrology Ward.

  • 2017
  • Review
  • Kidney & blood pressure research 42(5)
  • • Sylwia Dudzicz
    • Marcin Adamczak
    • Andrzej Więcek

  • PubMed: 29161712
  • DOI: 10.1159/000484428

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Clostridium Difficile Infection Incidence

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  In patients hospitalized in nephrology ward highly significant reduction of the CDI incidence was observed after the introduction of Lactobacillus plantarum 299v as CDI prophylaxis.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes