Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause ... positive results are not only detrimental to patients, they burden labs and clinicians and lead to wasted resources. However, it is known ...

A characteristic of the bacteria family to which Clostridium difficile belongs is the ability ... from the MGH microbiology and pathology labs who gave considerable amounts of their time to ...

The use of antibiotic drugs to treat other infections can increase the risk of C. difficile. For this reason, the infection most often affects older adults staying in the hospital or using long ...

Life-threatening infections caused by bacteria called Clostridium difficile now sicken nearly half a million Americans a year, health officials said Wednesday. The number of these infections ...

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 ...

increasing the risk of antibiotic resistance and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea,” Kuppalli said. “Shortages may also discourage ordering blood cultures, leading to missed infections ...

A new antibiotic is not only more effective than our first-line treatments for Clostridium difficile infections, but it also significantly reduces the risk of reinfection, according to studies in ...

Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria that is a normal component of the colon flora in humans. It can cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea (ADD) when competing bacteria ...

One dose of the drug, Rebyota, will be given to people with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) — a superbug which leads to infections causing fatal diarrhea. C. difficile throws the digestive ...

People with recurrent illness caused by hard-to-treat bacterium Clostridium difficile can be offered faecal transplants, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said. C.

Consuming foods containing probiotics can be beneficial if a person has a clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection. A doctor may also recommend probiotic supplements. C. diff is a strain of ...