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 ...

“Anaerobes face challenges under oxidative conditions associated with inflammation, while aerotolerant species expand to fill the gap. However, common gut anaerobes actually have relatively ...

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe colitis), clearly induced by the use of antibiotics, may be treated by stopping the inducing ...

A 75-year-old Irish woman (B.C.H. 1780647) entered the hospital on August 23, 1962, because of continuous nonradiating epigastric pain associated with anorexia, nausea, vomiting . . . From the ...

Pfizer's vaccine for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) looks like it may join a growing list of candidates that have been shelved or delayed, after the shot failed to meet its primary objective in a ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has developed this document to provide infection prevention and control guidance to healthcare organizations and healthcare workersFootnote a for the management of ...

BT is produced by Clostridium botulinum and consists, of a complex mixture of proteins containing botulinum neurotoxin and various non-toxic proteins. Botulinum neurotoxin consists of a heavy chain ...

Clostridium is an anaerobic bacterial genus. The clostridia produce more protein toxins than any other bacterial genus and are a rich reservoir of toxins for research and medicinal uses. Clostridia ...

1 Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 2 Zhuang & Yao Medicine Research and Development Center, ...