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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, this finding did not reach statistical significance, the researchers noted. “This is the first ...

Signs of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) activity, shorter duration of IBD, and previous corticosteroid use and hospitalisation were associated with Clostridioides difficile infection in patients ...

For people with suspected or confirmed C. difficile infection, review existing antibiotic treatment and stop it unless essential. If an antibiotic is still essential, consider changing to one with a ...

This study explores the effectiveness of toxin testing in predicting Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) outcomes, revealing that patients with negative toxin results were less likely to ...

Of more than 100,000 suspected adverse drug reaction reports registered in EudraVigilance, most related to C difficile were associated with ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An investigational oral microbiome therapeutic was superior to placebo in reducing the risk for recurrent ...

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) is a type of bacteria that causes a range of gastrointestinal symptoms, from mild diarrhoea to life-threatening colitis. It affects the colon, which ...

Sometimes scientists look for new species in the jungle or deep in the oceans. Other times they look in hospital rooms. Researchers reported this week in Nature Genetics that a subset of Clostridium ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere — a virulent strain of bacteria called Clostridium difficile. It picked up that name because when it was first discovered, it was difficult to grow in the lab. C.

Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is difficult to treat, and failure rates for antibiotic therapy are high. We studied the effect of duodenal infusion of donor feces in patients with recurrent ...