A 70-year-old woman with a history of Clostridium difficile infection returned to the clinic with abdominal pain and diarrhea. Three stool samples were negative for C. difficile and WBCs. Would you ...

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 ...

Clostridium difficile can proliferate when the gut's normal microbiome is killed by antibiotics, leading to inflammation. New research shows how the microbes' poisonous proteins penetrate intestinal ...

An innovative treatment for patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) which uses transplanted gut bacteria to treat the infection, is a more effective and more cost-efficient treatment than ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is inflammation of the colon caused by a bacteria called clostridium difficile and is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Blood ...

The study of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) continues to reveal intricate details of its pathogenesis, epidemiology and potential novel therapies. Research has elucidated how the bacterium, ...

You may not yet have heard of the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. dif.), but in the next few years it will likely become a household name, as well known as Staph and Strep. C. dif. causes a severe ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common hospital-acquired infection that is associated with a high clinical and economic burden. Because of this management of CDI is quickly becoming a part ...

Epidemiology and Infection, Vol. 138, No. 6 (JUNE 2010), pp. 907-914 (8 pages) Participating researchers and public health personnel at a Canadian workshop in 2007, noted considerable gaps in current ...

In the world of superbugs (bacteria that has grown resistant to antibiotics) Clostridioides difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, is among the most stubborn. In 2013 the Centers for ...

A bacterium called Clostridium difficile is known as a superbug for its incredible resistance to antibiotics, which may be due to the fact that its outer protein coat has a structure akin to chain ...