"About 7% of patients hospitalized for an IBD flare are found to be C diff ... of toxin. These are "1000 more times more sensitive than ELISA, but still not as sensitive as a PCR test; they ...

Researchers have discovered how the C. diff toxin B recognizes the human Frizzled protein, the receptor it uses to invade intestinal cells and lead to deadly gastrointestinal infections.

This abstract tackles some of these. The authors studied the kinetics of PCR positivity in C. diff and whether test positivity during or after treatment was a marker for recurrence. The average ...

Included patient encounters had a positive C difficile PCR test and either a toxin EIA-positive assay (confirmed cases) or toxin EIA-negative assay (controls). Available encounter stool specimens ...

Patients who were missing components for recurrent C. difficile infection criteria (for example, having a positive toxin test result) were also counted as reinfected. Limitations included that the ...