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 ...

Clostridium difficile is an unpleasant, sometimes severe, and potentially lethal infection. It is an enteric pathogen whose armory involves the production of a toxin leading to gut dysphoria and ...

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 bacteria, computer illustration. C. difficile is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine, but it can become a pathogen when antibiotics disrupt the normal intestinal flora and ...

Dr. Kalman Protzner, who conducted an autopsy on Mullin's body, told the coroner's juryearlier that doctors had advised him Mullinmight have died from ischemic bowel disease or C.

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C. diff-associated diarrhea (CDAD) places financial stress on U.S. hospitals. A study of 170,000 discharges from 477 hospitals from 2009-2011 calculated that a CDAD case can increase a hospital stay ...

Ultraviolet C light disinfection to clean unoccupied patient rooms significantly reduced C. difficile infections (CDI) in high-risk patients who later occupied those rooms, according to a new study.

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Filtered supernatants of 2TY broth cultures (72 h) were used for western blots, cytotoxicity and toxin neutralization assays.

More than 450,000 Americans get infected with the deadly bug Clostridium difficile each year, according to a new report. And almost all cases are caused by the overuse of antibiotics. Subscribe to ...

Diarrhoea is a common side effect of antibiotic treatment, occurring in 2–25% of people taking antibiotics, and depends on a range of factors including the antibiotic. The most common cause of ...

If that case of diarrhea just doesn't get better, your heartburn drug could be the reason. The Food and Drug Administration just warned doctors and consumers that popular medicines called proton pump ...