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 ...

Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is difficult to treat, and failure rates for antibiotic therapy are high. We studied the effect of duodenal infusion of donor feces in patients with recurr ...

A total of 187 C. difficile isolates were collected from eight health care facilities in six states (Georgia, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) in which outbreaks of C ...

Household Transmission of Clostridium difficile to Family Members and Domestic Pets. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , 2016; 1 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.178 Cite This Page : ...

Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of clostridium difficile infection. Follow the links to read common uses, side effects, ...

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. diff can ...

Clostridium difficile kills 13,000 people each year in the US alone. A new antibiotic tested in mice works better than our first-line treatments against infection – and prevents reinfection too.

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 ...

Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes a life-threatening infection. According to the CDC, it is responsible for about 500,000 infections and 15,000 to 29,000 deaths every year in the United ...

December 29, 2011 — Put a lid on it. That is the conclusion of research examining the amount of Clostridium difficile that flies into the air and contaminates surrounding surfaces with the flush ...

The researchers used a clinical data warehouse at a four-hospital healthcare organization to gather information on inpatients who contracted C. difficile and were available for 56 days of follow-up.