Clostridium difficile causes approximately 10% to 20% of cases of antibiotics-associated diarrhea and is the main cause of antibiotics-associated colitis (50% to 75%) and pseudomembranous colitis ...

Key Facts. Pseudomembranous colitis is usually caused by Clostridium difficile overgrowth after antibiotic use.; TcdA and TcdB toxins from C. difficile damage the colon and cause inflammation ...

Life-threatening infections caused by bacteria called Clostridium difficile now sicken nearly half a million Americans a year, health officials said Wednesday.. The number of these infections ...

Clostridium difficile, now called Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile), is a bacterium that can cause symptoms such as diarrhea and fever. C. difficile infection is becoming more common ...

Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of gastroenteritis-associated death and has become the most common cause of health care–associated infections in US hospitals. For long-term ...

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 ...

Clostridium difficile infection, often referred to as C. diff, is caused by bacteria. Symptoms of C. difficile recurrence include mild-to-severe diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever.

Household Transmission of Clostridium difficile to Family Members and Domestic Pets. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , 2016; 1 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.178 Cite This Page : ...

The researchers used a clinical data warehouse at a four-hospital healthcare organization to gather information on inpatients who contracted C. difficile and were available for 56 days of follow-up.

Clostridium difficile kills 13,000 people each year in the US alone. A new antibiotic tested in mice works better than our first-line treatments against infection – and prevents reinfection too.

People with recurrent illness caused by hard-to-treat bacterium Clostridium difficile can be offered faecal transplants, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said. C. diff can ...