For the latter group, C. diff testing could not be ordered for patients who had been given laxatives within 48 hours, who had been treated for C. diff 14 to 24 days prior, or who had tested ...

For the latter group, C. diff testing could not be ordered for patients who had been given laxatives within 48 hours, who had been treated for C. diff 14 to 24 days prior, or who had tested ...

Hospitals that switched Clostridium difficile testing from nonmolecular to molecular methods recorded a 56 percent increase in recorded C. diff cases after the change, according to an article ...

C. diff testing for appropriate patients within the first three days of hospital admission increased from 54% in 2014 to 81% in late 2019.

For C. diff, antibiotic resistance comes at a cost. News. By Michael Schubert published 28 August 2024 ... However, given the lack of testing, this likely isn't the whole story." ...

In the video, Dr. Carolyn Gould, a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC, discusses which patients should be tested for C. diff, which testing methods are ...

The Hollywood, Fla.-based system restricted the ordering of C. diff tests for some patients, including those who received laxatives within 48 hours, people treated for C. diff in the last 14 to 24 ...

Understanding the need for a new antibiotic to treat C. diff, Acurx Pharmaceuticals ACXP is developing ibezapolstat, a novel first-in-class antibiotic currently in mid-stage clinical testing.

Researchers say antibiotics don't always work against clostridioides difficile (C. diff) because of their interaction with gut bacteria. Here's some treatments to try to battle these infections.

Testing for Clostridium difficile infection is significantly lower than expected during diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, according to a study in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, the official ...

The researchers randomly assigned patients to a single infusion of bezlotoxumab (n = 30) or placebo (n = 31) prior to FMT and performed C. diff testing, which included glutamate dehydrogenase ...