C. Diff Infection: Patient Access to Fecal Microbiota Transplant. Author(s): Neil Minkoff, MD, Dale N. Gerding, MD +3 More. Shared insight on the process to gain access to fecal microbiota ...

Each year, 30,000 people die from C-diff infections. Symptoms are like a horrible case of food poisoning that doesn't go away. Cathy said, "I lost over 40 pounds in weight, I got so weak I couldn ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) --Ultraviolet C light disinfection on unoccupied patient rooms in hospitals significantly reduces C. difficile infections, researchers say in a new study. The research was ...

Researchers polled 119 patients who had suffered recurrent C. diff infections and were treated at Chicago-area hospitals. They defined recurrent infections as a second episode of C. diff within 15 ...

The C. difficile outbreak at St. Joseph’s Hospital contributed to the death of a patient over the age of 85, an internal review has concluded. St. Joseph’s is deep-cleaning the entire hospital ...

"Any time we can reduce C. diff in the healthcare field, you're not only helping the patient in front of you, but also every patient on that ward, potentially," Mergenhagen emphasized.. CDI ...

A New Gold Standard for C. diff Therapy Could be in the Offing; Next Data Release Expected in 2Q23. Clostridioides difficile/Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterial infection and is the ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on ...

In one of the most comprehensive real-world analyses to date, Danish researchers report that fecal microbiota transplantation ...

C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

Bacteria from one person could be inadvertently transferred to surfaces in a different room, where they could lie in wait for another patient, undetected. Importantly, not all C. diff bacteria ...

Any patient who was diagnosed with a C. diff infection within 30 days of antibiotic treatment was presumed to have antibiotic-associated C. diff. About 87% of patients were treated with ...