Researchers screened patients for C. diff using real-time PCR, a toxin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and a toxigenic culture. Researchers suggest PCR detection may be contributing to the ...

White cell count The researchers acknowledge the clinical team can't definitely blame an increase or decrease in these markers on C. diff alone but note it can generally link an acute rise or ...

C. diff causes about half a million infections in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Factors that increase risk of C. diff infection include ...

Gastroenterologists rely on testing to identify C diff infections, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are largely replacing ELISA assays. "PCR is an excellent, extremely sensitive test for ...

According to the study, a dilution of hypochlorite is typically used to disinfect areas contaminated with C. diff, but “hypochlorite has to be used in excessive concentrations to be effective ...

Researchers from the University of Houston released a new study that found 26.4 percent of shoes carry a bacteria called Clostridium difficile, also known as "C. diff." It turns out C. diff is a ...

The inquiry at Antrim Civic Centre was set up after the deaths of a number of patients linked to C. diff. Professor Griffin from St George's University, London, told the independent panel that C.

The number of deaths from MRSA has now fallen by more than 75% since 2008. There were 1,646 deaths from C. difficile, external in 2012, down from 2,053 in the previous year. Both infections have ...