Up to 72 percent of healthcare-associated diarrhea may not be attributable to Clostridium difficile-associated disease, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Researchers ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Saha and colleagues conducted a prospective study of 50 patients (median age, 51 years; 66% female) with CDI at ...
ORLANDO — A Clostridium difficile infection — a challenge in any patient — can be particularly difficult in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Even testing for infection can be a problem, ...
Science stands "at the very beginning of understanding the complexity" of the gut microbiome, Synthetic Biologics Inc. CEO Jeffrey Riley told BioWorld Today, noting that his company engages in "more ...
What are the characteristics of C. difficile infection? Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium that induces inflammation in the intestine via two toxins, namely TcdA and TcdB. A variety of ...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is one of the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections in recent times. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) confers increased risk for CDI ...