Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Saha and colleagues conducted a prospective study of 50 patients (median age, 51 years; 66% female) with CDI at ...
A test from four easily measurable clinical variables can accurately predict risk of death in patients infected with C. diff, according to a paper published in BMC Infectious Diseases. English ...
WEBVTT ANTIBIOTICS CAN KNOCK OUT AN ILLNESS, BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE, THESE DRUGS CAN TRIGGER POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING INFECTION, CAUSED BY A BACTERIA COMMONLY KNOWN AS C-DIFF. IT’S BASICALLY WHEN BAD ...
CHICAGO, Ill. (WPVI) -- A new drug to treat C. Difficile, also known as C. Diff, is getting C. diff is a common bacterial infection of the gut, and it can be deadly. In two Phase 3 clinical trials, an ...
You might say Jacob Epstein, a lean, healthy, 88-year-old Floridian, died in early May from a broken arm. Following surgery to reset the bone, he was given an antibiotic to prevent postoperative ...
Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, and kills up to 30,000. It is a leading cause of health-care-associated ...
Exposure to specific antibiotics is linked to the development of certain strains of antibiotic-resistant C. difficile, one of the fastest growing bacteria superbugs, according to a new study published ...
A potential breakthrough in developing a vaccine against Clostridum difficile infections has been achieved by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. “C. diff” is the ...
It seemed like such a great idea. But at the end of the day, as they say, those dogs didn’t hunt. Or at least not well enough. New research from Toronto throws into question the notion that canines ...
After infection control teams in the Netherlands and Vancouver, Canada, reported success in using dogs to sniff out patients with Clostridium difficile, Toronto researchers want to know whether ...
Herman O. Sintim, the Drug Discovery Professor of Chemistry in Purdue’s Department of Chemistry, has helped advance novel compounds to help treat patients with C. diff. (Image provided) Clostridioides ...
New research assesses the efficacy of hospital disinfectants in killing off the superbug Clostridioides difficile. Share on Pinterest A new study shows that disinfectants do not completely eradicate C ...