Researchers screened patients for C. diff using real-time PCR, a toxin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and a toxigenic culture. Researchers suggest PCR detection may be contributing to the ...

White cell count The researchers acknowledge the clinical team can't definitely blame an increase or decrease in these markers on C. diff alone but note it can generally link an acute rise or ...

C. diff causes about half a million infections in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Factors that increase risk of C. diff infection include ...

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 ...

According to the study, a dilution of hypochlorite is typically used to disinfect areas contaminated with C. diff, but “hypochlorite has to be used in excessive concentrations to be effective ...

diff. The antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C. diff), may not be living up to its promise, according to new ...