Hospital-Acquired C Difficile Increases In-Hospital Mortality Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection was independently linked to an increased risk for in-hospital death; across all baseline ...

Clostridium difficile is an unpleasant, sometimes severe, and potentially lethal infection. It is an enteric pathogen whose armory involves the production of a toxin leading to gut dysphoria and ...

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...

The study of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to reveal intricate details of its pathogenesis, epidemiology and potential novel therapies. Research has elucidated how the bacterium, ...

Purpose The pharmacology, clinical efficacy, safety, dosage and administration, and place in therapy of fidaxomicin for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are reviewed. Conclusion ...

A 70-year-old woman with a history of Clostridium difficile infection returned to the clinic with abdominal pain and diarrhea. Three stool samples were negative for C. difficile and WBCs. Would you ...

2019 MAR 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Gastroenterology Daily News-- Investigators publish new report on Gram-Positive Bacteria - Clostridium difficile. According to news ...

The Public Health Agency of Sweden has developed a method of typing that can allow laboratories to faster establish the presence of hospital outbreaks of the intestinal bacterium Clostridium difficile ...

A bacterium called Clostridium difficile is known as a superbug for its incredible resistance to antibiotics, which may be due to the fact that its outer protein coat has a structure akin to chain ...

Transplanting faecal matter from one person to another — the thought might turn your stomach, but it could be lifesaving. Some doctors are using the procedure to repopulate the gut with healthy ...